Startup-Manager with grub2 has no options

[lindsay7]

I installed grub2 and am trying to change the background color of the start menue. I have "Startup-Manager" installed, but now there are no options listed to change much after the installation of grub2.

Can anyone tell me how to change the start menu. Here is the screen shot of the Statup-Manager menu. IS the change to Startup- Manger just because of grub2 or is there a way to get back the features that the original one had?



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[lindsay7]

Well, I found out how to change the screen to a picture but not change the color, which is fine with me. I just did not like the similarity to the BSOD.

Here is the info and link, Note I used gedit and not nano to edit the file.

http://blogs.koolwal.net/2008/12/16/how-to-grub2-and-grub-pc-installing-splash-images/

[raymondh]

Well, I found out how to change the screen to a picture but not change the color, which is fine with me. I just did not like the similarity to the BSOD.

Here is the info and link, Note I used gedit and not nano to edit the file.

http://blogs.koolwal.net/2008/12/16/how-to-grub2-and-grub-pc-installing-splash-images/


Thanks Lindsay ...

[shantiq]

cool stuff to change the background image on startup

this is the info from the link





sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install grub2-splashimages


The new GRUB2 splash images are installed at:



# ls /usr/share/images/grub/
Output:

050817-N-3488C-028.tga Glasses_800_edit.tga
2006-02-15_Piping.tga Hortensia-1.tga
Aesculus_hippocastanum_fruit.tga Lake_mapourika_NZ.tga
Apollo_17_The_Last_Moon_Shot_Edit1.tga Moraine_Lake_17092005.tga
B-1B_over_the_pacific_ocean.tga Plasma-lamp.tga
BonsaiTridentMaple.tga Sparkler.tga
Flower_jtca001.tga TulipStair_QueensHouse_Greenwich.tga
Fly-Angel.tga Windbuchencom.tga#


and of course one might want to add one's own images to the list format is 640X480 and tga

Change the GRUB2 splash image

Now we will see how we can change the default GRUB2 splash image. First select the image file that you want to install from the following locations:


/usr/share/images/desktop-base/
/usr/share/images/grub/

For this example, I have selected “Plasma-lamp.tga” from /usr/share/images/grub/.
Now edit the file following file:


# nano /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme
and change the following line from:

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

for i in {/boot/grub,/usr/share/images/desktop-base,/usr/share/images/grub}/Plasma-lamp.{png,tga} and save the file.

well on maverick it looks like this:



# this allows desktop-base to override our settings
f=/usr/share/desktop-base/grub_background.sh
if test -e ${f} ; then
. ${f}
else
WALLPAPER="/usr/share/images/grub/screen44.tga"
COLOR_NORMAL="black/black"
COLOR_HIGHLIGHT="magenta/black" but i guess basically the same idea



Now you need to regenerate the grub.cfg file by giving the following command:

sudo update-grub

Updating /boot/grub/grub.cfg ...
Found Debian background: Plasma-lamp.tga
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-rt1-rt
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-rt1-rt
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-686
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-1-686
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.25-2-686
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.25-2-686
done
#
Further customization
You can further customize the text color and all by editing the file:

/etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme
That’s it. We are done here.

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