Ubuntu – GRUB splash image as background for GRUB menu

Ubuntu – GRUB splash image as background for GRUB menu

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Introduction –

Why Ubuntu does not provide GRUB splash image as background for GRUB selection menu?. Really I don’t know but, today we will learn how to do it.

root@arunbagul:~# apt-get install grub-splashimages
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
…
….
root@arunbagul:~#

Once you install “grub-splashimages” you will get grub splash image installed on your Ubuntu system in “/boot/grub/splashimages” directory.

root@arunbagul:/boot/grub/splashimages# update-grub
Searching for GRUB installation directory … found: /boot/grub
Searching for default file … found: /boot/grub/default
Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file … found: /boot/grub/menu.lst
Searching for splash image … none found, skipping …
…
…….
Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst … done

root@arunbagul:/boot/grub/splashimages#

update-grub is a program used to generate the menu.lst file used by the grub bootloader. It works by looking in /boot for all files which start with “vmlinuz-“. They will be treated as kernels, and grub menu entries will be created for each. It will also create the initial menu.lst if none exists, after prompting the user. It will also add initrd lines for ramdisk images found with the same version as kernels found. e.g. /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.5 and /boot/initrd-2.4.5 will cause a line of “initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.5 or similar to be added for the kernel entry in the menu.lst. After update-grub has been run for the first time, the user is required to edit the generated menu.lst.
Cheers,
Arun Bagul

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