1. Get a picture and open it with GIMP.
2. Go to Image>Mode>Indexed…
3. Make the maximum no. of colors to 14. To do this, enter 14 in the box that shows the default value of 255.
4. Click Convert
5. Your image might not look that good, but GRUB screen can handle only 14 colors. If you don’t like the 14 color picture at all, try changing the color to grayscale (Image>Mode>Grayscale). Some pictures look great in grayscale than in 14 colors.
6. Go to Image>Scale Image…
7. Set the width as 640 pixels and height as 480 pixels. You might need to click on the Chain icon to be able to set the exact size.
8. Click Scale
9. You have to save the file as a X PixMap image. Go to File>Save As… In the save dialog box Click on Select File Size (By Extension). From the drop down menu, select X PixMap image (third option from bottom). Give a filename, Save and close GIMP.Make the archive of the image:
10. R-click on the the file you have just saved and select Create Archive…
11. Give a name (the default should be okay). Don’t forget the save the file type as .gz. From the extension menu select .gz.
12. Click CreateCopy the archive file to /boot/grub/mygrubimages
13. Those who know how to copy files using Terminal window can easily do that. For those who prefer graphical way of copying files should open the Run Dialog box (Alt+F2) and type:
    gksu nautilus /boot/grub/ and hit enter. If it asks for your password, give it.
14. Create a new folder, name it mygrubimages (you can name it anything) and copy the archive file into it.
15. Open /boot/grub/menu.lst. Again in the Run dialog box, type:
    gksu gedit /bott/grub/mnu.lst and hit enter. If it asks for password again then you know what to do – restart and use Windows Vista. It never nags you for doing any administrative tasks!
16. In the file that opens, add a following line:
    splashimage=/boot/grub/mysplashimages/nameOfArchiveFile.gz
17. Save the file, restart your Ubuntu box, and get ready to be welcomed by your favorite picture

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Scenario/ Assumption:
1) You have Microsoft Windows
2) You have your system drive as C: (No matter whether it is FAT or NTFS)
3) You have Fedora .ISO files in the root directory of some partition (the partition must be FAT!)
4) You need to have a program that can open up the .ISO files. You can use free file archiver. 7zip works great. In this tutorial I am using Winrar.

Steps:

1. Go to C: drive and create a directory; name it boot
2. Open the .ISO file with Winrar. Inside isolinux directory, you will find two files: initrd.img and vmlinuz. Extract these two files to boot directory you have created in step 1 above
3. Go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/grub4dos to download grub4dos. This is required to boot grub from dos.
4. Extract the contents of grub4dos. Rename the directory to grub and copy it inside boot directory.
5. Inside the grub directory, you will find two files; grldr and grldr.mbr. Copy these two files to your C: root directory
6. Open boot.ini file which contains the boot information for Windows. You need to enable Show Hidden Files and Show System Files to view it in C: root directory. The easiest way is to type C:\boot.ini in the Run dialog box.
7. Type C:\grldr=”Start GRUB” at the bottom of boot.ini and save it.
8. Open menu.lst file with Notepad which is inside C:\boot\grub directory and type the following lines at the bottom:
   title Install Fedora Linux
   kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz
   initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd.img
9. Save the menu.lst file and restart your computer.

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