Changing the Grub boot splash screen 

Instructions for changing the GRUB boot manager back ground on SuSE-10.0. I also successfully applied this technique to SuSE-9.3: www.susewiki.org/index.php?title=Change_GRUB_background

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Remember that there is maximum size limit for message file: It can't exceed 150-200KB (not sure which one). If you will exceed the size, instead of seeing nice graphical GUI, you will see text (ncurses) based kernel selection.

Check out HowToCreateSuSEBootSplashPics if you are having picture problems. http://www.suselinuxsupport.de/wikka.php?wakka=HowToCreateSuSEBootSplashPics

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