Howto : GfxBoot ( Grub like suse )

[tlaloczint]

Then edit your menu.lst

sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

and make it use gfxboot

gfxmenu /boot/grub/message.suse

ok how do I do that?

tlaloc@aztlan:~$ gfxmenu /boot/grub/message.suse
bash: gfxmenu: command not found
tlaloc@aztlan:~$

do I missing something here?

[kno]

If it could help someone, herewith my configuration :
http://rapidsharing.com/download.php?id=87DFE506

[scenestar]

Just copy paste line for line of the quote in a terminal
It should work for everyone.

wget http://quasarfreak.googlepages.com/g....97-5_i386.deb

wget http://quasarfreak.googlepages.com/message.suse

sudo apt-get remove grub

sudo dpkg -i grub-gfxboot_0.97-5_i386.deb

sudo cp message.suse /boot/grub/

sudo echo gfxmenu /boot/grub/message.suse > /boot/grub/menu.lst

grub-install /dev/hda

[bohboh]

Tried your message.gobo file, still no joy.

Our files are the same, has the gfxmenu line at the top.

Any ideas?

[scenestar]

Tried your message.gobo file, still no joy.

Our files are the same, has the gfxmenu line at the top.

Any ideas?

Did you try with the theme provided in this howto?

If you did EXACTLY as was explained the most logical explanation would be that your theme is corrupted.

[bohboh]

Downloaded both files again and went through the entire guide EXACTLY.

Still the same.

[bohboh]

One thing, doing

sudo echo gfxmenu /boot/grub/message.suse > /boot/grub/menu.lst

gave me a permission denied error.

but i can edit it using gedit ok.

[scenestar]

One thing, doing

sudo echo gfxmenu /boot/grub/message.suse > /boot/grub/menu.lst

gave me a permission denied error.

Ack, just screw sudo
su to root like a real man.

edit to bohboh

I found your problem. Instead of :

grub-install /dev/hda

try

grub-install /dev/hdc

[bohboh]

Many thanks, that sorted it.

For future reference, Can you explain how, by looking at my fdisk output, you knew it was hdc?

So all i need to do to change themes is to place the message.blah file in /boot/grub and to change the line in menu.lst?

Again, Thanks

[kno]

Many thanks, that sorted it.

For future reference, Can you explain how, by looking at my fdisk output, you knew it was hdc?

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdc1 * 1 9351 75111876 83 Linux
/dev/hdc2 9352 9729 3036285 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdc5 9352 9729 3036253+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

It's hdc because grub is setup on /dev/hdc1 (your 3rd hdd) with Ubuntu

So all i need to do to change themes is to place the message.blah file in /boot/grub and to change the line in menu.lst?

Yes, but I don't find many message.xyz on the net...