Howto : GfxBoot ( Grub like suse )

[bohboh]

Yes, but I don't find many message.xyz on the net...

Thanks

That was going to be my next question. I have had a quick look and cant find any.

Oh well, suppose i could make my own. Do you know of any guides for making your own?

[kno]

Thanks

That was going to be my next question. I have had a quick look and cant find any.

Oh well, suppose i could make my own. Do you know of any guides for making your own?

sudo apt-get install gfxboot gfxboot-theme-ubuntu

then you'll find help and examples (to compile ) in :
/usr/share/doc/gfxboot/
/usr/share/gfxboot/themes/

A tutorial :
http://www.andreas-loibl.de/content/...oot/index.html

[frodon]

any screenshot of the result ?

[bohboh]

How do i take a screenshot of the boot menu?

[fantan]

Hi,

I did all steps by this how-to but after restart I get an error message like this:

"...I cannot find any graphic file >>message.suse<<..." and I can to go toward by pressing any key, and then I get the ordinary menu.lst to chose a system to boot.

Of course the message.suse graphic file is in the directory /boot/grub and
I ran the command grub-install hd0 without any error message.

What to do then?

fantan

[kno]

How do i take a screenshot of the boot menu?

eg by using qemu

[fantan]

Hi again,

The error message I get exactly is as follows:

The graphics file message.suse (or message.gobo) is missing, press any key to continue.
By pressing any key, I get the list of my systems according to my menu.lst and I can boot one of the systems.

Why the grub-glx doesn't find the message.suse or the message.gobo graphics file?
Again, these files are in the /boot/grub directory!!!

What can I do to get the proper screen?

fantan

[kno]

GoboGrubTheme :
Capture-gobo.png

SuseTheme :
Capture-suse.png

[fantan]

Hi again,

Thanks for the screenshots, but I know them very well, because in the past I used SuSE.
My problem is, that I can't get this bootscreen on my computer, although I did all steps exactly as these are written in this how-to.
My grub doesn't find the graphics file message.suse (or message.gobo) in the directory /boot/grub, but both of them are there!!!

What is the problem in my system?

[fantan]

Hi gentlemen,

I figured out what was the problem with my system!
On my HDD I have several partitions and for the boot I have a separate partition, hda1.
This partition is mounted to the /boot directory of the Dapper system.
On this partition there isn't /boot directory, just /grub.
If in the menu.lst file I change the first line from
"gfxmenu /boot/grub/message.gobo" to "gfxmenu /grub/message.gobo" then grub finds the graphics file message.gobo.
That's all, everithing is fine!
But, there isn't any animation on this screen!!! Although in the SuSE system there is an animation around the Earth picture.

What to do with this?

fantan