How to Change Default Grub Theme or Splash Image in Ubuntu 10.10

Ubuntu 10.10, Maverick Meerkat and its predecessor Lucid Lynx (10.04 LTS) use Grub2 and it is possible to change the grub theme from its drab black and white to something more refreshing. The instructions for doing so are included below. In addition you can also change the resolution of the Grub screen to suit your high resolution monitor! First install grub themes by doing this (by the way you can skip installing these and use your own .png image for this purpose). The downloaded files are located in the following folders /usr/share/images/grub/ You can list their contents by using the following commands This would list the contents similar to whats is shown below zhujia@Zhujia:~$ ls /usr/share/images/grub/ 050817-N-3488C-028.tga Glasses_800_edit.tga 2006-02-15_Piping.tga Hortensia-1.tga Aesculus_hippocastanum_fruit.tga Lake_mapourika_NZ.tga Apollo_17_The_Last_Moon_Shot_Edit1.tga Moraine_Lake_17092005.tga B-1B_over_the_pacific_ocean.tga Plasma-lamp.tga BonsaiTridentMaple.tga Sparkler.tga Flower_jtca001.tga TulipStair_QueensHouse_Greenwich.tga Fly-Angel.tga Windbuchencom.tga You can also browse to the images, how they look, screenshot included below Now edit the /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme file by doing this Search for the line that says WALLPAPER="/usr/share/images/desktop-base/moreblue-orbit-grub.png" and replace the path for the file that you want to use for your grub theme.  I choose this WALLPAPER="/usr/share/images/grub/Windbuchencom.tga" If you also need to change the color of text then you can modify the following two lines COLOR_NORMAL="black/black" COLOR_HIGHLIGHT="magenta/black" Now save the file and update grub by running the usual command After this restart your computer to test the new grub theme. Looks much better? If you want to increase the resolution of the grub screen, read on! First you need to find out the modes which your graphic card supports via VBE, you can do that by pressing c on the grub boot menu, this would open a grub command prompt, type the following there It is going to spit out several lines which tells you all the supported resolutions. Choose the one you want to use, and after booting back in Ubuntu, uncomment the following line in/etc/default/grub #GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480 replace it with the resolution you want to use, I used this GRUB_GFXMODE=1920x1200 Now, it would only be appropriate if you use an image corresponding to the desired grub resolution for the Grub background, so specify the path for the image that has this resolution, if you use an incorrect resolution image, it might result in stretching. WALLPAPER="/usr/share/images/grub/mywallpaper.png" Now regenerate the Grub.cfg by running the command Good Luck

转载于:https://www.cnblogs.com/MagicLetters/archive/2011/05/05/4382767.html