> PS: If you know how to get rid of any background image, could you
> say how?

Remove or comment out any "splashimage" directives from the config file.

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Re grub2: as long as grub0 works, I really don't care if grub2 is
better, cleaner, shinier, more modern or anything else.

I don't need a freakin' whole OS to boot linux, and having a
configuration that is so convoluted that it *has to* be generated by
running a set of scripts makes no sense at all. I thought the days of m4
and sendmail.cf were over a long time ago...

I am sure grub2 can be made to work, but for a piece of software as
vital as a boot loader, that level of complexity in my opinion is
totally unreasonable and impossible to justify.

andrea