Bug#298240: grub: Include DebBlue splash screen

Jason Thomas Jason Thomas <jason@debian.org>, 298240@bugs.debian.org
Tue, 8 Mar 2005 09:18:51 +1100


Because the splashimages may not work for everyone and could leave them
with an unbootable system. But, most things you do to the boot
sector/record could leave your system in an unbootable state.

So, If you think that the splashimage code is reliable enough go for it.

Have we fixed it yet so that it will not just load random data from the
drive, if its pointed at a non-existant file?

On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 01:04:52PM -0500, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 07:01:25PM +0100, Jaap Haitsma wrote:
> > Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > >On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 12:30:31AM +0100, Jaap Haitsma wrote:
> > >
> > >>Would be nice if grub would start with a graphical screen. DebBlue
> > >>( http://debblue.debian.net/ ) is already used as the default for the
> > >>gdm theme the gnome splash and the gnome background. So you might also
> > >>consider adding it to grub
> > >
> > >
> > >This would fall under the grub-splashimages package instead. If we
> > >decide on a default I can set it up, just let me know. BTW, my laptop
> > >had broken and therefore was AFK so I hadn't updated grub-splashimages
> > >for a while. Expect a new release soon.
> > >
> > >	Luis
> > >
> > Hi Luis,
> > 
> > I already filed a request to grub-splashimages a while ago but did not 
> > get any response I guess the maintainer missed it, or is not actively 
> > developed anymore
> 
> I maintain grub-splashimages, I forget the reason why we didn't have a
> default splashimage from the start. Can anyone of the others in
> grub-pkgt-maintainers comment on this?