[TriLUG] grub (my first grub experience)

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Sat, 2002-01-26 at 22:55, Matt Matthews wrote:
> On the topic of grub...
> 
> What are the specifications for the XPM that can be used for the background?
> I'd like to replace it with my own background, but my XPM doesn't look
> right...it looks like half-resolution (i.e. fat pixels) with wonky colors.
> Seems to imply that I'm using more data per pixel than I should.
> 
> I guess, more specifically, what bit depth? 256 colors? I guess I'll just try
> that, but it should be documented somewhere, no? :^)

Here are the lines from my xpm file:

/* XPM */
static char * splash_only_xpm[] = {
"640 480 16 1",
[...]

So, 640x480 at 16 colors looks to work.

Note that I believe only RedHat has patched their grub to
support graphics files.  I know for a fact, Mandrake hasn't.
I applied the Redhat patch to my Mandrake grub and it worked
quite well, though.  (You may be asking why not just use
Redhat's grub?  The mandrake one supports XFS which is the
filesystem I use.)

Tanner
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