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    Kubuntu Livecd has a cool grub but hd install is ugly

    Hi I have been looking all over for an example of a grub setup that is like on the kubuntu dapper cd. It looks cool when i pop in the cd. After I installed kubuntu to the hd the grub is plan old white on black text. The boot splash is still there but grub is plan and boring.

    I know how to make grub sing as far as boot configurations and such but making it pretty i don't have a clue. I was able to add a picture to the background but how do i get rid of the square box and make the nice highlight colors and stuff that exists on the cd. I would like a grub that looks almost identical to the kubuntu cd.

    Or if you could just tell me how to look at the menu.lst and the stuff like that from the cd that would be fine too. I don't mind picking it apart to see how it works.

    Anyway any help would be appreciated.


    #2
    Re: Kubuntu Livecd has a cool grub but hd install is ugly

    AFIAK, what was on the live cd wasn't grub.

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      #3
      Re: Kubuntu Livecd has a cool grub but hd install is ugly

      well any idea what it was?

      Anyway it seems as if a CD can do it surely a HD can too right?

      or

      SuSE 10.1 has a really cool grub?? or some such thing maybe someone nows how it works?

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        #4
        Re: Kubuntu Livecd has a cool grub but hd install is ugly

        it is very easy
        just download any splashimage(ex. www.kde-apps.org)
        and write som strings in /boot/grub/menu.lst

        splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz

        You must have smth like this default 0
        timeout 30
        splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz

        title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.12-r10
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r10 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda3 udev
        initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r10

        # Only in case you want to dual-boot
        title=Windows XP
        rootnoverify (hd0,5)
        makeactive
        chainloader +1

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