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lobotomiteqt5

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Registered: 2026-01-02

Posts: 12

grub theme wont load on its own

i dont know what to do at this point
i wanted to set a theme and it worked for like a month until a grub update ran and it stopped working, i tried fixing it myself but it didnt work, the theme is completely fine but png module isnt loaded at boot even though i have it in preload modules in /etc/default/grub
all i need to do is insmod png and set theme but why wont it do that on its own

5hridhyan

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From: Asia

Registered: 2025-12-25

Posts: 503

Re: grub theme wont load on its own

Did the update happen to overwrite a custom hook you had in /etc/grub.d/?
to force the module to be available the moment GRUB starts, try re-installing the GRUB binaries to your EFI partition with the modules explicitly included, also If ($root) is pointing to the wrong partition at that specific stage of boot, insmod will fail silently because it can't find png.mod, if you want to bypass the automation for a moment to see if it works, you can add the command to /etc/grub.d/40_custom...

Last edited by 5hridhyan (2026-03-19 18:52:13)

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