Newbie question on Grub 2

[epitonic]

Hi,

Trying to follow this simple 'how to' to change the background image of Grub menu screen
http://www.linuxmint.com/wiki/index.php ... screen_.3F

Q : How to add image at the background of grub screen ?
A :

1. Download an image you want from net. It should be in .png or .tga format. Lets say the file is nature.png
2. copy the file in /boot/grub or /usr/share/images/desktop-base directory.
3. open the file 06_mint_theme with command : sudo gedit /etc/grub.d/06_mint_theme
4. Locate the line starting with 'for i in'.
5. In that line at the end you will find word 'linuxmint'. Replace this with the filename of your desired file (nature). Don't add extension.
6. Save and close the file and give command : sudo update-grub

Just can't figure how to copy my image at step 2 in /boot/grub.... I'm not the owner/don't have the permission to do it?

Thank you.

epitonic

[viking777]

/boot can only be written to as root so from a terminal it would be something like:

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sudo cp path to your image file.png  /boot/grub

Please don't copy and paste that command - you have to substitute the correct path to your downloaded image file, and I can't guess that.

[epitonic]

Great, thank you Viking 777

Cheers.

epitonic