Gfxboot makes grub look nicer but with the same features. In this howto you will install gfxboot and a suse theme for it, soon I'll make an ubuntu one. Ok, let's start
Download the grub-gfxboot.deb
And message.suse
First remove your old grub
Code:
sudo apt-get remove grub
Then Install the gfxboot-grub
Code:
sudo dpkg -i grub-gfxboot_0.97-5_i386.deb
then we're going to move the message
Code:
sudo cp message.suse /boot/grub/
Then edit your menu.lst
Code:
sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
and make it use gfxboot
File:/boot/grub/menu.lst
gfxmenu /boot/grub/message.suse
Then do:
Code:
sudo grub
grub> find /boot/grub/stage1
(hdx,y) # this will be the output
grub> root (hdx,y)
grub> setup (hdx)
Reboot and enjoy
Thanks to Quasar_freak and kno
[edit]How to make your own theme
Code:
mkdir /home/name/whatever
cpio -i < /boot/grub/message.suse # replace it by the name of you message
edit the pictures
sudo ls . |cpio -o > /boot/grub/message.new
[edit]Changing the GFXBoot Theme
If the default SuSE theme works and you wish to change the theme, extract the message.* file from the themes below, then move it to the /boot/grub directory. For instance, if we wished to change to the gobo theme:
Code:
sudo cp message.gobo /boot/grub
You then need to edit menu.lst and change the top line: