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ftornell

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Registered: 2008-08-18

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Arch boot splash in grub?

Hi,
When booting from the Arch installation CD there is a blue image with the arc symbol to the lower right of the screen.
Is that image and that boot loader grub? I tried to copy that splash image from the grub directory of the cd but it wont show, got other images that work so its not my grub configuration...

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Slammer64

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From: Ozark Mountains of Missouri

Registered: 2007-07-28

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Re: Arch boot splash in grub?

You need to install grub-gfx to use bootsplashes, it's in the community repo. You can find instructions for installing it on the wiki.

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RiJo

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Registered: 2008-12-12

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Re: Arch boot splash in grub?

You can also use splashy: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Splashy
But this maybe will be harder to install and configure.

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Aphanic

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From: Verín or Madrid (Spain)

Registered: 2008-12-31

Posts: 27

Re: Arch boot splash in grub?

You don't really need grub-gfx. If you have installed the grub package that's found in core, you just need to open the Arch installation CD, copy splash.xpm.gz to your /boot/grub directory and edit menu.lst accordingly:

If you have a separated boot partition add this line (for example after the color line):

splashimage /grub/splash.xpm.gz

If you don't I think the right one to add is this one:

splashimage /boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz

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Ranguvar

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Registered: 2008-08-12

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Re: Arch boot splash in grub?

Want a really cool GRUB? Up for a challenge?

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=56576