Today, I was trying to make my grub to customized photo.. it was cool.. Nothing to break the head.  Only thing is to change the picture format to .xps and there are tools with linux to do that.. the command is “convert” command.

Any body knows who are these two guys?? Atleast kingians [my chennai room mates] must be knowing…

If you want to play with these grub,  its the splashimage grub command that bootloader use to do it.

So you need to convert the picture to xps format with 640×480 and gzip it and and copy to /boot/grub dir.

Now change the /etc/grub.conf file to edit the splashimage to the newly created xps picture. Now reboot the system.

keep fingers crossed and wait for the grub to come

Any body knows who are the ones in the photo???

Coming again to the HOW-TO..

Picture/photo parameters:

1. xpm.gz file type
2. 640×480
3. 14 colors only

Now what?

1. Gzip your xpm file and put it into your /boot/GRUB directory (or to any directory of a /dev/hda1 partition). (do: `gzip myfile.xpm`)
2. Edit your GRUB config file (aka /etc/GRUB.conf) and add this line:
splashimage=(hd0,0)/GRUB/myfile.xpm.gz
NOTE: Change the partition and directory according to your system’s setup.
3. reboot