When your Mandriva booting with grub loader, there is a nice background picture on it. But, maybe we not always comfortable with that picture. As a simple human being, is a normal situation when we not satisfied with something that was not going like what we want (actually, we never satisfied about everything).
So, in this post, I try to share to you how to edit that “boot-splash“. At the first time, I did a little bit confuse. Because in Mandriva, is more complex than bootsplash on Ubuntu. In Ubuntu we just can edit the “/boot/grub/menu.lst” file, and add this command :
splashimage (hd0,x)/boot/image_file.so
But in Mandriva there is steps to change, so lets get in on…
1. First find and back-up your “gfxmenu” file, because on Mandriva, this is the file that contain the picture that we want to modify. This file shoul be at “/boot” directory.
2. Enter to the terminal, and get in to your back-up “gfxmenu” file.
3. Then, extract that file with this command :
~# cpio -i < gfxmenu
4. After that, get in to that extracted folder and found the “back.jpg” file. This is the file that we will to change.
5. Edit your own background with 256 color and 8 bits depth (you can use GIMP to do this). And don’t forget to makesure the image size is 600×480 px or 800×600 px.
6. Save that picture with name “back.jpg“, then replace it in to the “gfxmenu” extracted folder.
7. Re-compress those files with this command :
~# ls | cpio -o > gfxmenu
8. Copy the ‘gfxmenu’ to the original location: /boot/
7. Reboot your PC/Laptop to see the change
And, that’s it !!! We had change the bootloader image…
Everything gonna be easy with open-source…………
freezipe says:
thanks bgt tutorialnya
2nd December 2009 at 10:13 am
biohazards says:
sama…sama…
saling sharing aja yaa…
sekalian kritik&saran’a…
2nd December 2009 at 4:47 pm
nirleka says:
Mungkin ga kalo resolusi gambarnya dijadiin 1280x800px (resolusi laptop)?
-sekalian bales via email ya mas, thx
2nd December 2009 at 1:29 pm
biohazzards says:
sori, bls’a disini…
resolusi segitu sih bs aja…
tp takut’a gagal…
yg jelas,klo pake resolusi 800×600 sekalipun, tetap bs di load d laptop…
kualitas’a jg tetep OK kok…
2nd December 2009 at 6:58 pm
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2nd December 2009 at 4:35 pm