Grub And Gfxboot/Gfxmenu

http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/User:Ml#grub_gfx_boot

I wanted the cd to boot using grub instead of isolinux (can be used for repairs/diagnostics). morphix and kanotix are both using a cute graphic grub menu, which gives easy access to various knoppix cheatcodes, documentation etc. This one's based on morphix, with slight ui changes. http://matthieu.lucotte.free.fr/myknoppix/gfxboot/grub_gfx.png

To try the bootloader in qemu, download gfxboot.iso.bz2, extract it and run

grub files need to be setup under boot/grub on the knoppix cd.

note: remember to make final iso image with :

boot/grub/message is a cpio archive which controls the ui. to recreate it you need the tools from gfxboot_2.4.orig.tar.gz. http://www.morphix.org/debian/source/gfxboot_2.4.orig.tar.gz

Then you can use gfxboot-grub-0.1_my.tgz to recreate message (based on morphix-iso-grubtheme_0.1-2.tar.gz) http://matthieu.lucotte.free.fr/myknoppix/cd_skel/KNOPPIX/remaster/gfxboot-grub/gfxboot-grub-0.1_my.tgz

documented on: 2008-03-25

http://linuxmini.blogspot.com/2007/10/ubuntu-boot-menu-with-suse-style.html

by FRIS

Now I will explain a very simple and effective way to significantly improve the GRUB in Ubuntu.

If you saw SUSE Linux, it is far more colorful than that brings Ubuntu default, and although it can be improved quickly putting a background image, sure that this kind of GRUB you like more:

It is quite easy to do so, as I configured both in the stand as on cell phones. Information is extracted from the Ubuntu How-To, but I have not worked to perfection with these steps, and they need to change a few things.

First, we must download the package grub-gfxboot and one of their themes. As I here use the Ububrown theme that I download from Ubuntu Forum like the image above.

As always, run a terminal, and type this:

Now we must uninstal grub and install the new (don't worry, it is safe):

Aware of one important thing: The /dev/hda must be changed to the correct path where we installed our Grub. To know exactly nothing better than watching the order to load the kernel in /boot/grub/menu.lst.

Next, decompress theme zip file that you have downloaded and copy it into /boot/grub:

Now, the final step is simple, edit the menu of Grub:

At the beginning add this line:

Finally, restart and we have new graphical boot loader.

Enjoy!

Notes: You can use the updated packages of grub-gfxboot (last versions have support for amd64). http://kanotix.com/debian/pool/main/g/grub-gfxboot/

documented on: 2007-10-23, FRIS

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/grub-gfxmenu-documentation-617473/

You can get the tarball from Ubuntu. When you unpack it, you will see a folder named Suse, with many files inside (including Themes, which is probably what you are looking for).

http://www.by.kernel.org/pub/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gfxboot/

Anyhow, tarball in an Ubuntu folder in the kernel.org repo.

documented on: 01-30-08, bigrigdriver

http://linuxmint.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4673

documented on: Aug 20, 2007, merlwiz79

Comment out "Pretty Colors" and "Hidden Menu" on your menu.lst Make sure the line gfxmenu /boot/grub/ is correct.

Editing my message files with your own images.

Now you can edit the menu.lst to use the new one. The images have to be the same name and file format. They also need to be 800x600.

Then just copy message.new to /boot/grub/

Last edited by merlwiz79 on Fri Dec 14, 2007

documented on: 2008-03-21

http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/lofiversion/index.php/t46993.html

if there's no error, copy message to your system

documented on: Dec 16 2006, chen242

in gnome type

in KDE

the file is just those two lines it's easy to figure it out from there. Its the percentage of times you want the xmas screen to appear. If you want the penguins all the time change it to 100, none of the time change it to 0

documented on: Mar 7 2007, kenbo

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

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

Credits: oldcpu, broch

Creating a bootable CD-ROM with GRUB merely requires a special form of stage2 called stage2_eltorito and, optionally, a customized menu.lst. The classic files stage1 and stage2 are not required.

Create a directory in which to create the ISO image, for example, with cd /tmp and mkdir iso. Also create a subdirectory for GRUB:

Copy the file stage2_eltorito into the directory grub :

Also copy the kernel (/boot/vmlinuz), the initrd (/boot/initrd), and the file /boot/message to iso/boot/ :

To make them available to GRUB, copy the file menu.lst to iso/boot and adjust the path entries to make them point to a CD-ROM device. Do this by replacing the device name of the hard disks, listed in the format (hd*), in the path names with the device name of the CD-ROM drive, which is (cd):

Finally, create the ISO image with the following command:

The write the resulting file grub.iso to a CD using the utility of your preference.

documented on: 2008-03-21