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Author Topic: <Solved> Grub on DVD has no Background  (Read 738 times)
Sefy
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« on: May 22, 2010, 06:51:06 AM »

Ok this is a strange one, i've changed the Grub background to the one i used with the 2009.2 and on the system itself it shows up great and no issues.
After doing a remaster, the grub on the newly made ISO has no background (just black and the text shows up).
However, when doing an installation from that ISO, the Grub on the new installed system DOES have the new Grub Background.

I've changed all the images in the /usr/share/gfxboot (both install and boot and in the message file as well).
Any suggestion on what else i need to change ?
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« Reply #1 on: May 22, 2010, 06:52:28 AM »

Check that menu.lst is pointing to the correct location of the background on the live media ?
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Sefy
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« Reply #2 on: May 22, 2010, 06:53:31 AM »

Mmm... if i just changed the current background with a file of the same name, why would the location change?  Shocked
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« Reply #3 on: May 22, 2010, 06:55:36 AM »

Sefy,
Did you change the background in /boot/gfxmenu?
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Sefy
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« Reply #4 on: May 22, 2010, 06:58:20 AM »

yup, i changed in all locations.
As i mentioned, from the installed machine the new background is appearing.
But when booting from the new ISO the grub shows up as black background, as if it couldn't load the image.
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« Reply #5 on: May 22, 2010, 07:00:43 AM »

yup, i changed in all locations.
As i mentioned, from the installed machine the new background is appearing.
But when booting from the new ISO the grub shows up as black background, as if it couldn't load the image.

Did you strip the image of meta-data? Grub can't load heavy images.
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Sefy
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« Reply #6 on: May 22, 2010, 07:05:36 AM »

Mmm.. even if it's the same image i used previously?
How do you strip meta-data? i've never done that before Embarrassed
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« Reply #7 on: May 22, 2010, 07:08:06 AM »

Open the image with Gimp. Save it as a .png graphic. Close Gimp. Open the .png that you just created with gimp. Save it as .jpg. This will remove the meta-data.

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Sefy
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« Reply #8 on: May 22, 2010, 09:38:34 AM »

Mmm... that actually made my file way larger by 21k!
It was 61k and ended up being 82k  Shocked
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« Reply #9 on: May 22, 2010, 12:06:30 PM »

Well, i've managed to finally do it! thanks to everyone!!  Grin
Here's the final result to anyone who might want, although i doubt it  Roll Eyes
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« Reply #10 on: May 22, 2010, 12:29:37 PM »

Mmm... that actually made my file way larger by 21k!
It was 61k and ended up being 82k  Shocked

 Huh Huh Huh That should not have happened. It should be around 50kb in size. Something got added.

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Sefy
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« Reply #11 on: May 22, 2010, 12:34:55 PM »

Doesn't matter, i started from scratch and while i "ripped off" the flames from the previous grub my sister made (untill she makes me a new one), and so far it's now working on regular VM, i'm gonna remaster and check if it will now appear on the iso grub as well.
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