Re: [Bug-grub] splash screen

[Jason Thomas]

This functionality has been added by redhat, and is currently
unsupported by the upstream grub developers.


On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 04:06:35PM +0100, P.B. IJdens wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I use grub as it ships with RH 7.2
> 
> I was installing a custom graphical splash screen and accidentally installed
> an XPM that was 1280x1024 with 16 colors.
> 
> As a reaction to that, grub failed to boot alltogether. Instead of showing
> me the bootscreen it crashes and reboots the system. I (obviously) had to
> use a rescue CD to get into my system again.
> 
> Even though it is a typical example of 'my own stupid fault' I think that
> grub should not crash and reboot, but instead maybe should fallback to
> textmode?
> 
> By the way, the splasscreen directive is missing from the info pages. I
> would like to know which boundary conditions are defined for these
> splasscreens.
> 
> Take care, and I really do like grub!