Comments on: Customizing Your GRUB Screen http://www.quicktweaks.com/2008/04/13/customizing-your-grub-screen/ Quick Tweaks For Your System Sat, 28 Nov 2009 10:50:47 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: knobcottage http://www.quicktweaks.com/2008/04/13/customizing-your-grub-screen/comment-page-1/#comment-91 knobcottage Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:09:17 +0000 http://www.quicktweaks.com/?p=8#comment-91 Nice one! You live and learn! However, there is a slightly easier way... at least for a gui based noobie like me, which avoids all the command line stuff...well at least in Hardy. I used startup-manager as it eventually appears in System>Adminisitration or startupmanager as it appears in the GUI version of Synaptic package manager I installed it via the GUI Synaptic Package Manager. Worked real nice BUT I installed a standard JPG for the boot menu background, stop laughing!, Unable to use menu background ...press any key to continue! I did press any key...it did continue. Got rid of the picture and chose different colours and the flashing option. All worked well. NOW I know how to make the proper sort of picture, I'll get on it thanks! ( If only someone could tell me how to get the keyboard to print the letters I tell it when I use it in different applications I'd be happy! Shift-3 shows a GB pound sign but prints a # instead and the shift figures for key number 2 have been swapped etc! I CANT fix that through the GUI because it keeps changing back and VI does it that way by default!) Nice one! You live and learn!
However, there is a slightly easier way… at least for a gui based noobie like me, which avoids all the command line stuff…well at least in Hardy. I used

startup-manager as it eventually appears in System>Adminisitration
or
startupmanager as it appears in the GUI version of Synaptic package manager

I installed it via the GUI Synaptic Package Manager. Worked real nice BUT I installed a standard JPG for the boot menu background, stop laughing!, Unable to use menu background …press any key to continue! I did press any key…it did continue. Got rid of the picture and chose different colours and the flashing option. All worked well. NOW I know how to make the proper sort of picture, I’ll get on it thanks!
( If only someone could tell me how to get the keyboard to print the letters I tell it when I use it in different applications I’d be happy! Shift-3 shows a GB pound sign but prints a # instead and the shift figures for key number 2 have been swapped etc! I CANT fix that through the GUI because it keeps changing back and VI does it that way by default!)

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