BURG has no splash

[borth92]

I wanted a more graphical screen when I chose what OS to boot into, so I installed BURG. It works great, I love the GRUB interface now. But after I choose my OS (I have not tried windows) I get like a command line showing what is going on in the boot. I do not want this, I want the old loading screen back with the BURG partition interface. How can this be accomplished?

[ajgreeny]

You could have added an image to grub2, and used that still. It is not hard to do, but I admit it needs some config file editing.

I presume burg does all this with a gui of some sort, but have never looked at it, so am not sure.

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 or elsewhere:
/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:

gksudo gedit /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.
This basically tells GRUB2 to look for image name “Plasma-lamp” in the locations:
/boot/grub
/usr/share/images/desktop-base
/usr/share/images/grub
Now you need to regenerate the grub.cfg file by giving the following command:

sudo update-grub
Updating /boot/grub/grub.cfg ... etc etc.

[borth92]

You could have added an image to grub2, and used that still. It is not hard to do, but I admit it needs some config file editing.

I presume burg does all this with a gui of some sort, but have never looked at it, so am not sure.

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 or elsewhere:
/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:

gksudo gedit /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.
This basically tells GRUB2 to look for image name “Plasma-lamp” in the locations:
/boot/grub
/usr/share/images/desktop-base
/usr/share/images/grub
Now you need to regenerate the grub.cfg file by giving the following command:

sudo update-grub
Updating /boot/grub/grub.cfg ... etc etc.
those directories do not exist for me. all I have is usr/share/images/C and usr/share/images/desktop-base

[borth92]

Also, that file did not look like you described, could you paste the code of the whole program you asked me to change

[ajgreeny]

Here you go, the full default /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme. I did also say you could use an image from elsewhere

#!/bin/bash -e

source /usr/lib/grub/grub-mkconfig_lib

# this allows desktop-base to override our settings
f=/usr/share/desktop-base/grub_background.sh
if test -e ${f} ; then
source ${f}
else
WALLPAPER="/usr/share/images/desktop-base/moreblue-orbit-grub.png"
COLOR_NORMAL="black/black"
COLOR_HIGHLIGHT="magenta/black"
fi

set_mono_theme()
{
cat << EOF
set menu_color_normal=white/black
set menu_color_highlight=black/light-gray
EOF
}

# check for usable backgrounds
use_bg=false
if [ "$GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT" = "gfxterm" ] ; then
for i in /boot/grub/`basename ${WALLPAPER}` ${WALLPAPER} ; do
if is_path_readable_by_grub $i ; then
bg=$i
case ${bg} in
*.png) reader=png ;;
*.tga) reader=tga ;;
*.jpg|*.jpeg) reader=jpeg ;;
esac
if test -e /boot/grub/${reader}.mod ; then
echo "Found background image: `basename ${bg}`" >&2
use_bg=true
break
fi
fi
done
fi

# set the background if possible
if ${use_bg} ; then
prepare_grub_to_access_device `${grub_probe} --target=device ${bg}`
cat << EOF
insmod ${reader}
if background_image `make_system_path_relative_to_its_root ${bg}` ; then
set color_normal=${COLOR_NORMAL}
set color_highlight=${COLOR_HIGHLIGHT}
else
EOF
fi

# otherwise, set a monochromatic theme for Ubuntu
if ${use_bg} ; then
set_mono_theme | sed -e "s/^/ /g"
echo "fi"
else
set_mono_theme
fi


Also see this webpage with a lot more detail on using your own image.
http://members.iinet.net/~herman546/p20/GRUB2%20Splashimages.html#make_your_own_

[borth92]

after going through some solutions, I am missing usr/bin/dpkg. coud you provide me with the lines for that?

[ajgreeny]

after going through some solutions, I am missing usr/bin/dpkg. coud you provide me with the lines for that?
Do you mean that file is missing in your file system? If so I have no idea how you can proceed, I'm afraid, as I think it will mean you can not install anything.

Maybe you can download the package from ubuntu somehow, but I have no idea how you could then get dpkg installed, as you need dpkg to install packages. A bit of a chicken and egg situation, which I will have to bow out of.

Just as a matter of interest, how on earth did you manage to remove the file, and why?
Also, and I should really have already asked this, what version of ubuntu are you using? My answers are for 9.10 and 10.04.

[borth92]

I did not remove it and I can install packages right now so maybe i'm wrong about it being missing. I am a former Windows Guru jut switching over to ubuntu. It definitely feels weird not knowing whats going on lol. I get an error when following the instructions on the site you directed me to...heres the command line stuff that came up.

danborth@danborth-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install grub2-splashimages
[sudo] password for danborth:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
grub2-splashimages
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 9,776kB of archives.
After this operation, 14.5MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/universe grub2-splashimages 1.0.0 [9,776kB]
Fetched 9,776kB in 29s (337kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package grub2-splashimages.
(Reading database ... 130615 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking grub2-splashimages (from .../grub2-splashimages_1.0.0_all.deb) ...
Setting up grub-pc (1.98-1ubuntu7) ...
Installation finished. No error reported.
Generating grub.cfg ...
/etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme: line 59: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"'
dpkg: error processing grub-pc (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Setting up grub2-splashimages (1.0.0) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
grub-pc
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[borth92]

o ok i was looking under bin for dpkg not usr/bin.

[ajgreeny]

Perhaps burg does not have or use grub-pc at all and that is why you are getting this error message when trying to do things to burg.

Sorry, I am now lost, and I think you need to go to a burg forum if there is one and ask there.

[borth92]

GOT IT!

You had me editing etc/default/grub
I needed it edit the almost identical file etv/default/burg

All I needed to do was change the quiet boot to quiet splash and the splash is now enabled in burg

[borth92]

I got it a while ago and forgot to tell you that this is solved. I just needed to look at the grub.conf file to see a line says quiet splash. And in the burg.conf file, it just says quiet. So all I needed was to add splash to the quiet and it displayed the splash.