How To Fix The Grub Splash Image

Robert L Cochran cochranb at speakeasy.net
Sun Apr 19 12:41:34 UTC 2009


On 04/19/2009 08:33 AM, Mike Chambers wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 21:26 -0400, Robert L Cochran wrote:
>    
>> gimp Artwork-F11-grub.xpm.gz
>> Click Image on the menu bar and then Mode and notice that Mode is set to
>> 'RGB'. Click the radio button to select "Indexed..." instead.
>> Under Color map, click the radio button for "Generate optimum palette",
>> and under that change the maximum from 255 colors to 14.
>> Click Convert.
>> Click File...Save As... and rename the file to something else but keep
>> the xpm.gz extension. For example, "Artwork-F11-v4-grub.xpm.gz".
>> Accept the default Alpha threshold you are offered for XPM.
>>      
>
> Thanks for the fix Bob.  Although I did it one step easier I guess, by
> just saving the fixed file somewhere else and recopying it back to it's
> original path and not having to edit grub.
>
> Anyway, that fixed it, so thanks again.
>    
No problem. I like to preserve the original image of anything so I do a 
little more work. That way if my fix doesn't really fix it, I can start 
fresh and figure out what I did wrong.

Bob




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