Description of problem: Cannot find any doc describing the use (supported image formats) of 'splashimage' config param. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. [go@pc17 grub-0.90]$ grep splash /boot/grub/grub.conf splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz [go@pc17 grub-0.90]$ rpm -ql grub|xargs zgrep -i splash /usr/share/grub/i386-redhat/stage2:Binary file (standard input) matches [go@pc17 grub-0.90]$ Actual Results: No doc talks about the image formats that are ok for 'splashimage' Expected Results: 'info grub' should explain every config param you can use in grub.conf Additional info: About docs, you should rename /usr/share/doc/grub*/mesu.lst to grub.conf too, as you did for the main config file. Also, is this normal: [go@pc17 go]$ cp /boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz . [go@pc17 go]$ gunzip splash.xpm.gz [go@pc17 go]$ file splash.xpm splash.xpm: X pixmap image text [go@pc17 go]$ /usr/bin/xpmtoppm splash.xpm > file1 xpmtoppm: EOF or read error on input file [go@pc17 go]$ /usr/bin/xpmtoppm --verbose splash.xpm xpmtoppm: Width x Height: 640 x 480 xpmtoppm: no. of colors: 15 xpmtoppm: chars per pixel: 1 xpmtoppm: EOF or read error on input file [go@pc17 go]$
Will be fixed in grub-0.91-1 and later