A few days ago, I decided to try another distro than Mint. So I backed up my Mint partition to an external hard drive using Clonezilla, and tried the new distro. Needless to say it was not as good as Mint, so then I reinstalled Mint (and Grub) using Clonezilla. Mint works perfectly again.
The only problem I have is that the original Grub splash screen (the picture of the Linux Mint Logo which appears behind the menu when you select the OS) is gone and I can't find it anywhere. I've tried installing several packages which looked like they might contain it, but no luck. I have lots of screens, but not the original one which came with the distro.
Can someone tell me where I can find the original mint grub splash screen?
Grub splash is gone after reinstating partition image
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Grub splash is gone after reinstating partition image
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Re: Grub splash is gone after reinstating partition image
Download this file
http://rapidshare.com/files/241260834/l ... ssage.html
Save it in this directory
/boot/gfxmenu
Then install kgrub from synaptic, then kgrub>Options>Backround>select "linuxmint.message" for your GfxMenu File
It should work.
http://rapidshare.com/files/241260834/l ... ssage.html
Save it in this directory
/boot/gfxmenu
Then install kgrub from synaptic, then kgrub>Options>Backround>select "linuxmint.message" for your GfxMenu File
It should work.
Re: Grub splash is gone after reinstating partition image
I tried that, it doesn't work. I still have a text menu on top of whatever background I choose.
Re: Grub splash is gone after reinstating partition image
Try starting kgrub and reinstalling Grub now that you have that new file.
Grub>Tools>Install/Restore Grub>Install Grub on a Hard Disk Drive/Partition
Just make sure you install to the correct partition, normally dev/sda.
Grub>Tools>Install/Restore Grub>Install Grub on a Hard Disk Drive/Partition
Just make sure you install to the correct partition, normally dev/sda.
Re: Grub splash is gone after reinstating partition image
Nope. That didn't work either. I am mystified.
Thanks for the suggestions - any other ideas?
Thanks for the suggestions - any other ideas?
Re: Grub splash is gone after reinstating partition image
Here is my menu.lst...in case it's useful. (I omitted all the lines commented out with #)
gfxmenu /boot/gfxmenu/linuxmint.message
default 3
timeout 3
color cyan/blue white/blue
title Linux Mint
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic root=/dev/sda2 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic
title Linux Mint (recovery mode)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic root=/dev/sda2 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic
### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
title Other operating systems:
root
title Microsoft Windows XP Professional
root (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
savedefault
makeactive
gfxmenu /boot/gfxmenu/linuxmint.message
default 3
timeout 3
color cyan/blue white/blue
title Linux Mint
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic root=/dev/sda2 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic
title Linux Mint (recovery mode)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic root=/dev/sda2 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic
### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
title Other operating systems:
root
title Microsoft Windows XP Professional
root (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
savedefault
makeactive
Re: Grub splash is gone after reinstating partition image
Your Grub menu looks exactly like mine. Maybe if you use Remastersys to clone your system you will get the splash screen back. If you really want the splash screen it's worth a shot. Here's a guide I posted.
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=26955
Of course you could always create your own. The quality won't be very high but it's better than no splash screen.
http://maketecheasier.com/create-and-in ... 2009/01/27
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=26955
Of course you could always create your own. The quality won't be very high but it's better than no splash screen.
http://maketecheasier.com/create-and-in ... 2009/01/27
Re: Grub splash is gone after reinstating partition image
I've still got this problem and i've discovered something else about it.
if I install another distro on a different partition, and install the bootloader for the new distro, then I select mint from that bootloader, the Mint bootloader then comes up with the correct graphics.
now that really is strange. Does that help anyone to solve it?
if I install another distro on a different partition, and install the bootloader for the new distro, then I select mint from that bootloader, the Mint bootloader then comes up with the correct graphics.
now that really is strange. Does that help anyone to solve it?
Re: Grub splash is gone after reinstating partition image
seems like you have "one grub after another", one calling another.
The best solution for you is copying the info about OS's (end of menu.lst) of the new distro(should be more updated) for your mint menu.lst, after that
#grub-install /dev/sda (for example)
To reinstall Mint's GRUB to MBR (not sure if this does it, but almost sure)
so i think you'll have the same first menu, with mint looking =)
The best solution for you is copying the info about OS's (end of menu.lst) of the new distro(should be more updated) for your mint menu.lst, after that
#grub-install /dev/sda (for example)
To reinstall Mint's GRUB to MBR (not sure if this does it, but almost sure)
so i think you'll have the same first menu, with mint looking =)
[SOLVED] Grub splash is gone after reinstating partition ima
Well - I tried using grub-install /dev/sda, that didn't work.laedrus wrote:seems like you have "one grub after another", one calling another.
The best solution for you is copying the info about OS's (end of menu.lst) of the new distro(should be more updated) for your mint menu.lst, after that
#grub-install /dev/sda (for example)
To reinstall Mint's GRUB to MBR (not sure if this does it, but almost sure)
so i think you'll have the same first menu, with mint looking =)
So I decided to try it from the livecd of Mint, using
#grub-install --root-directory=/dev/sda2 /dev/sda
...and that worked.
I really have no idea why it didn't work from the installed system.