[SOLVED] Grub2 shows no splash image

Harey · 2010-12-19 14:04:04

Hi all,

I am in the process of reinstalling my laptop on a SSD. This needs grub2. I'd like to use the graphical background feature but I can't get it to work.

I used grub's vbeinfo to get the max solution of my screen, put a background.icb of the right size in /boot/grub and edited /etc/default/grub:

# If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update
# /boot/grub/grub.cfg.

GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="Arch Linux"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

# Uncomment to enable Hidden Menu, and optionally hide the timeout count
#GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=3
#GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true

# Uncomment to disable graphical terminal
#GRUB_TERMINAL=console

# The resolution used on graphical terminal
# note that you can use only modes which your graphic card supports via VBE
# you can see them in real GRUB with the command `vbeinfo'
GRUB_GFXMODE=1680x1050x32

# Uncomment to allow the kernel use the same resolution used by grub
GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep

# Uncomment if you want GRUB to pass to the Linux kernel the old parameter
# format "root=/dev/xxx" instead of "root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/xxx"
#GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true

# Uncomment to disable generation of recovery mode menu entries
#GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_RECOVERY="true"

# Uncomment and set to the desired menu colors.  Used by normal and wallpaper
# modes only.  Entries specified as foreground/background.
GRUB_COLOR_NORMAL="light-blue/black"
GRUB_COLOR_HIGHLIGHT="light-cyan/blue"

# Uncomment one of them for the gfx desired, a image background or a gfxtheme
GRUB_BACKGROUND="/boot/grub/background.icb"
#GRUB_THEME="/path/to/gfxtheme"

# Uncomment to get a beep at GRUB start
#GRUB_INIT_TUNE="480 440 1"

output from grub-mkconfig when updating grub2

[root@totalbaf ~]# grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
Generating grub.cfg ...
Found background: /boot/grub/background.icb
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz26                                                                      
Found initrd image: /boot/kernel26.img                                                                  
done

So nothing seems to be wrong. The system starts, the entries are coloured and the resolution is what it should be but - no background...

I looked through the grub2 wiki several times but by now I can't see anything I did wrong.

Maybe someone can help me out with new glasses

Harvey

Last edited by Harey (2010-12-19 16:36:44)

graysky · 2010-12-19 16:03:43

Hmm... I think only png and tga are the image formats grub2 can use but I might be mistaken... try converting it to png and repeat.

Harey · 2010-12-19 16:36:23

graysky wrote:

Hmm... I think only png and tga are the image formats grub2 can use but I might be mistaken... try converting it to png and repeat.

Hi graysky,

thanks for your answer. PNG will load as expected. The grub2 wiki says:

Image formats supported include tga, png and jpeg

But only png really works. I tried TGA and JPEG, both of them result in no background at all although I verified that the script loads the right modules.

Setting this to solved, well, sort of...

Harvey

Arch Linux

#1 2010-12-19 14:04:04

[SOLVED] Grub2 shows no splash image

#2 2010-12-19 16:03:43

Re: [SOLVED] Grub2 shows no splash image

#3 2010-12-19 16:36:23

Re: [SOLVED] Grub2 shows no splash image

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