Re: Why does big black box appear over by GRUB2 theme when booting?

[Andrei Borzenkov]

10.06.2016 18:12, Ed Hartnett пишет:
> Howdy Andrei!
> 
> Thanks for your response. Indeed the big black box is the terminal-box.
> Although I can change its borders with the terminal_boc_X.png files, I
> cannot do anything about the big black box.
> 
> If Andrei or anyone has any further information on how to fix this,
> including info about a possible patch to GRUB2, please let me know.
> 

The patch I talk about is

https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/openSUSE:12.3:Update/grub2/grub2-enable-theme-for-terminal-window.patch?expand=1

you can review this bug report for reason why it was removed

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=776244

> Thanks,
> Ed
> 
> On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 1:26 PM, Andrei Borzenkov <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>> Отправлено с iPhone
>>
>>> 8 июня 2016 г., в 22:02, Ed Hartnett <address@hidden>
>> написал(а):
>>>
>>> I made a nice GRUB2 theme, which gives me a screen like this:
>>>
>>> http://s33.postimg.org/qe6gm7e0f/screen_small.png
>>>
>>> When I make my selection and start to boot, for about 10 seconds a big
>>> black box appears over the screen. Then the whole screen goes away and
>> the
>>> boot proceeds.
>>>
>>> It looks like this:
>>>
>>> http://s33.postimg.org/ehb5qqkkv/screen_blocked_small.png
>>> ​
>>> Why is the black box appearing? Is
>>
>> This where grub prints messages during execution of menu entry. It is the
>> same command line window you get when pressing 'c'.
>>
>>> there any way for me to stop it showing?
>>>
>>
>> Not really. I remember openSUSE once had a patch to make this window
>> background fully transparent.  IIRC the patch was dropped because it caused
>> screen corruption. If you are really interested, you could try to fix it -
>> I will dig out reference for you. Just tell :)
>>
>>> The files for the alien theme can be found on GitHub here:
>>> https://github.com/edhartnett/alien_theme
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Ed
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>>
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