Grub splash screens

Here is a selection of some Grub splash screens I have made. (The selection is growing slowly but steadily, so come back to check from time to time.)

(The screenshots were made in qemu, which saves a lot of time testing the splashes.)

To use these splashes, click on the link below the screenshots, and save the file in the location where grub is installed, generally /boot/grub/ on a standard GNU/Linux system. Then add the relevant loading code to /boot/grub/menu.lst . In order to determine the correct partition name you may want to look at this part of the official Grub manual.

Copyright © 2009 Andrzej JR Hunt
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

Sunrise over Rigi

A sunrise over Rigi, taken near the city of Luzern (or Lucerne as it is spelled in English). It was taken early on a May Morning. The original is considerably more impressive, but this is the best we can do in Grub.

Download Sunrise over Rigi (rigi.xpm.gz – 31.2KB)

Md5Sum: 8b8d5f4e83f9bbe074f6d21fbf3baa42
This was loaded using:

color 000000 009900 foreground ffffff background 000000 splashimage (hd0,0)/boot/grub/blumen.xpm.gz

Rowing

This was made in Inkscape, then exported and processed with Gimp. The original was made for the splash screen of simple rowLog. (You can also view the pure image as a png file here.)