How To: Get Mint 6 striped grub theme back

[nickless]

I didn't find any thread concerning this, so I had to figure it out myself. Luckily for me (and maybe for you as well) this is very easy.
If you want to get the old striped grub theme, all you have to do is:

1. Check out /boot/gfxmenu/

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ls /boot/gfxmenu/

which should return you

user@machine:~# ls /boot/gfxmenu/
default.message linuxmint.message striped.message

As you can guess striped.message is probably the old grub theme, while linuxmint-message is the current one. If you don't have striped.message I suggest you try to copy it from the Elyssa LiveCD to this folder.

2. Now that we know that we have the theme, we tell grub to use it. This step is very easy, but please be careful because a broken menu.lst can give you some trouble.

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sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

Go to the line that says

## Graphical boot menu location
gfxmenu=/boot/gfxmenu/linuxmint.message

and change it to

## Graphical boot menu location
gfxmenu=/boot/gfxmenu/striped.message

Thats it!
If you now reboot, you will be greeted by Elyssas grub look.

Troubleshooting:
If you did something wrong and grub isn't loading or something like that, boot the LiveCD and run from terminal

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sudo cp /boot/grub/menu.lst~ /boot/grub/menu.lst

That should reset your last changes and hopefully resolve your problem.

[emorrp1]

This would also work:

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cd /boot/gfxmenu
sudo mv linuxmint.message mint.message
sudo ln -s striped.message linuxmint.message

with the advantage that changing it back is as simple as (which could be made into a toggle script):

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sudo unlink /boot/gfxmenu/linuxmint.message
sudo ln -s /boot/gfxmenu/mint.message /boot/gfxmenu/linuxmint.message