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Hi! |
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As Desktop Team Leader I guess I should try to make Gentoo look nice |
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too. Therefor I thought that we should have some nice graphics when |
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showing the grub menu at boot time. |
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So it's now in the portage (grub-0.90). |
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To make use of it (with a nice background created by drobbins) follow |
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these instructions (works on both of my computers anyway): |
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1) Update you portage-tree. |
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2) Emerge sys-apps/grub/grub-0.90.ebuild |
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3) Unmerge old grub package. |
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4) Edit /boot/grub/menu.lst: |
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(you might have to copy it from /boot/boot/grub). |
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4.1) Add (before first title): |
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splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz |
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where hd0,0 should be where you have your root. |
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5) Run grub |
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Where you'll get something like this: |
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(again, switch hd0,0 to whatever works on your system) |
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> root (hd0,0) |
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Filesystem type... |
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> setup (hd0) |
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Checking ... |
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Next step in the make gentoo nice at desktop is some nice graphics for |
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gdm login and perhaps a set of gentoo backgrounds which could be used in |
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X. gentoo-backgrounds-0.1 perhaps? :) |
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Regards and good luck, |
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Mikael Hallendal |
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Mikael Hallendal |
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Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team Leader |
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Stockholm, Sweden |