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Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Customizing the splash image in GRUB

Got bored with corporate logo of your Linux distribution?

Change it..

1.The image should be of size 640x480 pixels

2.Should only have 14 colours

3.In gzipped xpm format

You can use GIMP for these modifications and save it as xpm file. Then gzip and make it splash.xpm.gz

Back up your /boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz and overwrite with your file

Note: You need root privileges

Done! Reboot and watch...

Here is my lap's bootupscreen..

Monochrome images in grey scale, red, blue or green work better than other colours. I used grayscale...

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