Bug 722363

Created attachment 513305 [details]
Patch for f14-f15 branches

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Zoran: The patch seems to be mangled somehow. Could you upload an updated version?

hi , I saw this patch and 
we don't have /boot/grub2/backgrounds/grub.png for Fedora 16 ? 
so we don't have background image in grub2 ? 

thanks,

AFAIK, the Grub2 in Fedora 16 already supports font and background, so I think what we need is to add corresponding options/files in grub2 package and probably requesting a custom background for Grub 2 (sine legacy grub's support was very limited, it is not possible to use high quality backgrounds).
Thanks to http://ask.fedoraproject.org/question/74/vga0x307-is-deprecated-but-cant-get-gfxmode-to I'm currently using Fedora's own background with the following options:

GRUB_GFXMODE=1024X768x32
GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep
GRUB_BACKGROUND=/usr/share/backgrounds/verne/default/normalish/verne.png

Note: as given in the above link, a font file should be also added to grub2.

Also, since grub 2 now supports themes, it would be great if a Fedora grub theme is designed...:D

(In reply to comment #5)
> AFAIK, the Grub2 in Fedora 16 already supports font and background, so I think
> what we need is to add corresponding options/files in grub2 package and
> probably requesting a custom background for Grub 2 (sine legacy grub's support
> was very limited, it is not possible to use high quality backgrounds).
> Thanks to
> http://ask.fedoraproject.org/question/74/vga0x307-is-deprecated-but-cant-get-gfxmode-to
> I'm currently using Fedora's own background with the following options:
> 
> GRUB_GFXMODE=1024X768x32
> GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep
> GRUB_BACKGROUND=/usr/share/backgrounds/verne/default/normalish/verne.png
> 
> Note: as given in the above link, a font file should be also added to grub2.

Trying to get a bg for this:

Is /etc/grub.d/05_debian* required?
http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/grub-2.html#mozTocId930378

Currently have:
# GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep
GRUB_GFXMODE=1024X768
GRUB_BACKGROUND=/usr/share/backgrounds/default.png

No, not at all. You just need to use appropriate settings and also create a font file using grub2-mkfont as described. Also, use small 'x' for the resolution part: 1024x768 rather than 1024X768 
(I've used big X in above mistakenly).
Using the correct settings, you should be able to get a graphical Grub2 after running grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

It'd be great if it is fixed for Fedora 17 and it comes with a colorful grub.

A proper graphical boot requires a font ... and Fedora doesn't have the default font and will place fonts in a place where grub doesn't look.

http://www.mail-archive.com/grub-devel@gnu.org/msg18492.html will add the necessary knobs upstream.

*** Bug 814421 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

grub2-2.0-0.24.beta4.fc17 has been pushed to f17 stable and upstreams way of doing it now work. The patch offered here is thus not relevant.

so it is fixed upstream !

grub2-2.0-0.25.beta4:

- missing line in /etc/default/grub (grub.default):
  GRUB_THEME=/boot/grub2/themes/system/theme.txt

- the theme makes the menu be slooooww

- and add fedora-logos-17.0.2-1 to "Requires:" in spec file.