Grub2 in Fedora 16 was ugly, black, and spartan, with the reasoning given that the default was for it to have a 0 timeout, thus never be seen anyways. Well, plenty of people still see it, so Mo Duffy generated a theme. The background for that theme is in fedora-logos-17.0.2-1.fc17. We'd also need grub2-2.0-0.25.beta4.fc17 for the rest of the theming (menu layout, colors, etc).
+1 NTH. I don't think adding a theme is likely to be a dangerous change. the apparent change to 'graphical mode', if anything, would be the dangerous change, but that seems to have already landed. so taking the theme on top isn't really likely to hurt anything, and makes it all look nicer. -- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
as always, though, I _do_ wish we could get these changes in earlier. there was plenty of opportunity to land changes to the bootloader earlier.
Doesn't this also need a change to anaconda to write the GRUB_THEME line? -- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
I believe that the answer here is no, because /etc/default/grub will have the proper setting. Peter would know for sure though.
+1 nth, having a pretty bootloader is nice
+1 NTH
+1 NTH if it doesn't break the world
spot: well, I tested a live image with the updated grub2 and fedora-logos, and it still wasn't themed after install. Accepted as NTH with the above votes. -- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
Hmm. Peter, any ideas?
+1 NTH as it affects installs and is unlikely to break things in a not clearly visible manner.
This is fixed in anaconda-17.27-1 : * Mon May 14 2012 Brian C. Lane <bcl> - 17.27-1 - anaconda-cleanup: umount /run/media too (#820750) (bcl) - Disable md /boot and /boot/efi on EFI. (#816823) (dlehman) - dracut: use nfs3 by default (#811242) (wwoods) - script.py error message needs gettext (bcl) - We have a grub2 theme now, so say to use it. (pjones)
Setting VERIFIED, as tflink mentioned on IRC last night he'd seen the new theme on an install from his test ISO. I'll confirm with TC6 also. -- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
17.27 went stable. closing. -- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers