Comments on GRUB 2 boot menu basics and how to add a custom splash image

1) In the text you spell "quiet" as "quite", which is incorrect.

2) What graphic formats and sizes are supported by Grub 2?

I don't get it, you show us what the config files are, how to ls a directory, copy a file and what the default contents of those config files are.

Where are the actual CHANGES we have to make? How does grub decide which image file to choose? Did you actually MISS the most important thing to rename your "splash1.jpg" to "splash.jpg" or does grub understand that? The scripts seem to explicitly look for splash.{jpg,png,...}

Back to the docs.

this is a total misleading howto, ... not working, incomplete

a. not all distrobutions default to grub. and b for those who come looking for more specifics on customization of grub than editing the default configi file

http://wiki.rosalab.ru/en/index.php/Grub2_theme_tutorial

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB

https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub/html_node/Theme-file-format.html

http://wiki.rosalab.ru/en/index.php/Grub2_theme_/_reference

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB/Tips_and_tricks

https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/grub-2.html

https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub-dev/grub-dev.pdf

are the sources i use and cover every everything you need to pimp out your bootloader rosalab is probally the best themeing guide if your just looking to make a flashy bootloader but the rest are worth reading  as they contain good information and tecnical stuff and tricks, such has having final countdown played on boot (arch tips/tricks).

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