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pmatos
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 Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2004 1:31 pm Post subject: From LILO to GRUB |
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Hi all,
I've just changed from Lilo to grub and I'm very satisfied, however, I do not see any splash image in grub.  And I think I should. I only see a white table on a black background, nothing fancy. I have the following grub.conf:
| Quote: | # Boot automatically after 30 secs.
timeout 30
#Splash
splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/grub.xpm.gz
# By default, boot the first entry.
default 0
# Fallback to the second entry.
fallback 1
# For booting GNU/Linux 2.6.x
title Gentoo GNU/Linux
root (hd0,1)
kernel (hd0,1)/kernel-2.6.3-rc1-gentoo root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc real_root=/dev/hda4 vga=0x317 splash=verbose
initrd (hd0,1)/initrd-2.6.3-rc1-gentoo
# For booting GNU/Linux 2.4.x
title OldGentoo
root (hd0,1)
kernel (hd0,1)/kernel-2.4.22-gentoo-r1 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc real_root=/dev/hda4 vga=0x317 splash=verbose
initrd (hd0,1)/initrd-2.4.22-gentoo-r1
# For booting Windows NT or Windows95
title Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
# For loading DOS if Windows NT is installed
# chainload /bootsect.dos
# For installing GRUB into the hard disk
title Install GRUB into the hard disk
root (hd0,0)
setup (hd0)
# Change the colors.
title Change the colors
color light-green/brown blink-red/blue
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Any ideas?
Best regards,
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valuial
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| Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2004 1:44 pm Post subject: Re: From LILO to GRUB |
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| pmatos wrote: |
#Splash
splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/grub.xpm.gz
[..]
# For installing GRUB into the hard disk
title Install GRUB into the hard disk
root (hd0,0)
setup (hd0)
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You install the grub files to hd(0,0), but want to load the splash from hd(0,1).
As hd(0,0) seems to be youre windows partition try installing grub with root (hd0,1) (youre /boot partition I assume)
hope that does the trick...
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RaaR
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| Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2004 1:54 pm Post subject: |
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This may be a longshot but there's no harm in checking: all the computers I have here have grub's splash in /boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz. I see your conf is pointing to /boot/grub/grub.xpm.gz.
Sometimes it's these small things that break stuff.  |
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pmatos
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| Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2004 2:43 pm Post subject: |
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| RaaR wrote: | This may be a longshot but there's no harm in checking: all the computers I have here have grub's splash in /boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz. I see your conf is pointing to /boot/grub/grub.xpm.gz.
Sometimes it's these small things that break stuff. |
Indeed, you're right, however, still get no splash screen... only the b&w menu. My current grub.conf is:
| Quote: | # Boot automatically after 30 secs.
timeout 30
#Splash
splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
# By default, boot the first entry.
default 0
# Fallback to the second entry.
fallback 1
# For booting GNU/Linux 2.6.x
title Gentoo GNU/Linux
root (hd0,1)
kernel (hd0,1)/kernel-2.6.3-rc1-gentoo root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc real_root=/dev/hda4 vga=0x317 splash=verbose
initrd (hd0,1)/initrd-2.6.3-rc1-gentoo
# For booting GNU/Linux 2.4.x
title OldGentoo
root (hd0,1)
kernel (hd0,1)/kernel-2.4.22-gentoo-r1 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc real_root=/dev/hda4 vga=0x317 splash=verbose
initrd (hd0,1)/initrd-2.4.22-gentoo-r1
# For booting Windows NT or Windows95
title Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
# For loading DOS if Windows NT is installed
# chainload /bootsect.dos
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My (hd0,0) is windows partition, (hd0,1) is boot partition, (hd0,2) is swap and (hd0,3) is root. Splash image in is /boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz.
Any ideas? Do I need to specify which type of menu I want, somewhere?
Best regards,
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RaaR
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| Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 1:46 am Post subject: |
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Was the splash file already there when you installed grub? Try running grub again and check that when you perform
a line saying the splash file was found appears (I don't remember which of the two commands gives the output about finding files). |
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pmatos
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| Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 2:12 pm Post subject: |
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| RaaR wrote: | | Was the splash file already there when you installed grub? |
Yes, I think it came with gentoo.
| RaaR wrote: | Try running grub again and check that when you perform
a line saying the splash file was found appears (I don't remember which of the two commands gives the output about finding files). |
I get:
| Quote: | grub> root (hd0,1)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
grub> setup (hd0)
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no
Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... yes
Checking if "/grub/stage2" exists... yes
Checking if "/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes
Running "embed /grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"... 22 sectors are embedded.
succeeded
Running "install /grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+22 p (hd0,1)/grub/stage2 /grub/menu
.lst"... succeeded
Done. |
Doesn't mention splash image.
Any ideas?
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RaaR
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| Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 2:56 pm Post subject: |
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I checked and the line about the splash really isn't supposed to appear. However, my last line reads a bit different.
You have that ".../grub/stage2 /grub/menu.lst"... succeeded" whereas I have ".../grub/stage2 /grub/grub.conf"... succeeded"
I don't have a menu.lst, perhaps because seeing no need for it I deleted it (can't remember). If yours is a link to grub.conf or something like that, there shouldn't be a problem, if on the other hand it isn't, your output may be telling us that the changes you've made to grub.conf aren't even being read.
Another thing I read somewhere is that it's nice to have a link from boot->./. That would make that first check that came back with a no, turn into a yes.
| Code: | cd /boot
ln -s . boot |
Not really mandatory, but as I said, I read it's a good thing to have. |
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Raniz
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| Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 4:37 pm Post subject: |
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I've got the same problem, although I had a splash image earlier. Then suddenly it disappeared. Don't know if I upgraded grub or something.  |
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| Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 5:01 pm Post subject: |
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how're your partitions setup?
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| Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 7:32 pm Post subject: Check the changelog |
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Check the Changelog for GRUB.
I'm pretty sure they just made a major jump in versions and the ebuild currently doesn't include the splashimage patch.
It'll be added back in soon... |
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pmatos
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| Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 8:02 pm Post subject: |
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| christsong84 wrote: | | how're your partitions setup? |
hda0 = windows
hda1 = boot
hda2 = swap
hda3 = root
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