How To Add A Splash Image To GRUB 2 On Ubuntu 9.04

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This tutorial shows how you can add a splash image to your GRUB 2 boot loader on Ubuntu 9.04. Please note that you should use this tutorial only if you have upgraded your bootloader to GRUB 2 previously, as shown in this tutorial: How To Install GRUB 2 On Ubuntu 9.04

I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!

 

Adding Splash Images

Open a terminal (Applications > Accessories > Terminal)...

... and install the grub2-splashimages package:

sudo aptitude install grub2-splashimages

This installs some splash images in the /usr/share/images/grub directory. To preview them, go to Places > Computer...

... and navigate to the /usr/share/images/grub folder. You should see thumbnails of the available splash images (which have the extension .tga):

Right-click the image that you want to use and select Properties. On the Basic tab, copy the name of the image (without the extension .tga):

Now open /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme...

sudo gedit /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme

... and replace the line...

[...]
  for i in {/boot/grub,/usr/share/images/desktop-base}/moreblue-orbit-grub.{png,tga} ; do
[...]

... with:

[...]
  for i in {/boot/grub,/usr/share/images/desktop-base,/usr/share/images/grub}/Moraine_Lake_17092005.{png,tga} ; do
[...]

(Make sure that you use the correct file name of your wanted splash image!)

Then update the GRUB configuration...

sudo update-grub

... and reboot the system:

sudo reboot

The GRUB menu should now use the wanted image as the background:

 

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By: Das

Man these splash images are garbage! I can't believe the developers would put this junk in a distro! What happened to the days of COOL Linux images? This junk is like something off those cheesy wallpaper sites, with all their banners and popups! Come on you know what I mean! I hope someone can tell us WHERE to find some decent Grub2 splash images or a TUT to make our own! THANKS

By: ceroberoz

you can add more images into that grub directory by change the /usr/share/images/grub into 777

By: Aznatam

How can I change the text color and size?

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Hi

thank you for your guide as i checked my self i found that for GRUB 2 all you need to do is simply:

copy the image to /boot/grub folder "you must use sudo command with copy command or login as root"

then simply type sudo update-grub command, when grub start to update the grub.cfg file if it finds an image in that directory it will use it as a background image. see the result i got :

 

[email protected]:~$ sudo update-grub

Generating grub.cfg ...
Found background image: mybg.jpg <-this shows that it found a file called mybg.jpg
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-24-generic-pae
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.0.0-24-generic-pae
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic-pae
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-8-generic-pae
Found memtest86+ image: /memtest86+.bin
done