GRUB on Slackware

[Honorato Echavez]

I decided to install GNU grub-0.93 and look at all the GNU referenced
howto links for grub, and now have it succesfully installed on the Master
Boot Record of my PC, as well as a boot floppy, and even have a 14-color
graphic (using gimp) that I got from Slackware Propaganda in xpm.gz
format. My PC boots up nicely with a Slackware GNU Linux graphic while
waiting to select from the grub menu (using /boot/menu.lst). The grub
floppy is especially nice for emergencies, disasters, and such where it
boots much quicker than a lilo boot disk, and even has an option to put
grub back on the MBR if need be. Anyway, thought I'd share my grub
experiences with you folks.

[reh]

Honorato Echavez wrote:

Glad you did, thinking about doing the same.
--
robert - redhat & slackware

[дамјан г.]

> I decided to install GNU grub-0.93 and look at all the GNU referenced
> howto links for grub, and now have it succesfully installed on the Master
> Boot Record of my PC, as well as a boot floppy,

I've been using GRUB since Slack-8.1..

> and even have a 14-color graphic (using gimp) that I got from Slackware
> Propaganda in xpm.gz format. My PC boots up nicely with a Slackware GNU
> Linux graphic while waiting to select from the grub menu
> (using /boot/menu.lst).

Did you patch grub-0.93 or I haven't noticed that 0.93 supports splash
images?

--
Дамјан (jabberID:dam...@bagra.net.mk)

0 and 1. Now what could be so hard about that?

[Bas Bloemsaat]

How did you do the graphic? Are there any command line tools to convert a gif or png to xpm (don't run X)?

Regards,
Bas

"Honorato Echavez" <hech...@comcast.net> wrote in message news:pan.2003.11.13....@comcast.net...

[Douglas Mayne]

On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 06:39:40 -0700, дамјан г. wrote:
>
>
>
>>> I decided to install GNU grub-0.93 and look at all the GNU referenced
>>> howto links for grub, and now have it succesfully installed on the
>>> Master Boot Record of my PC, as well as a boot floppy,
>>
>> I've been using GRUB since Slack-8.1..
>>
>>> and even have a 14-color graphic (using gimp) that I got from Slackware
>>> Propaganda in xpm.gz format. My PC boots up nicely with a Slackware GNU
>>> Linux graphic while waiting to select from the grub menu (using
>>> /boot/menu.lst).
>>
>> Did you patch grub-0.93 or I haven't noticed that 0.93 supports splash
>> images?
>>

This RPM file will display the graphic. It works with slackware with
libc.so.6:
ftp://linux.stanford.edu/pub/mirrors/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/grub-0.93-7.i386.rpm

Convert to a package using rpm2tgz and then install with installpkg.
Copy "stage" files from /usr/share/grub/i386-redhat to /boot/grub.
Setup grub to fix the loader.

--
Douglas Mayne

[Douglas Mayne]

On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 11:53:55 -0700, Douglas Mayne wrote:
>>>
>>> <snip>

>>>
> This RPM file will display the graphic. It works with slackware with
> libc.so.6:
> ftp://linux.stanford.edu/pub/mirrors/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/grub-0.93-7.i386.rpm
>
> Convert to a package using rpm2tgz and then install with installpkg.
> Copy "stage" files from /usr/share/grub/i386-redhat to /boot/grub.
> Setup grub to fix the loader.
>

There are detailed instructions for creating the graphic in this month's
linux gazette (issue #96):
http://www.linuxgazette.com/node/view/142

Using a graphic from slackware propoganda:
http://www.slackware.com/~msimons/slackware/grfx/

I created this graphic:
http://www.xmission.com/~ddmayne/computer/linux/splash.xpm.gz

Specifically with this image:
http://www.slackware.com/~msimons/slackware/grfx/shared/SWtheDistro.jpg

Aside: If you are going to use the Fedora package as I did, I think that
grub.conf is required. Create a link to be on the safe side,
ln -s menu.lst grub.conf

If you are changing the loader from lilo, run grub shell to complete setup.
If you are using a version a grub which isn't patched to display the graphic,
then you should also re-run grub shell to finalize setup.

--
Douglas Mayne