News
January 30, 2004
I've added a nice automated splashimage viewer. Go check it out. You can download from there too.May 5, 2003
Major re-write of the entire HOWTO. I got an e-mail first from Okuji regarding my inconsitancy of the usage of the name "GRUB". Apparantly I had used "GRUB", "Grub", and even "grub" interchangably and this is not cool. He also made it clear that the FSF does not require you to sign away your copyright to the FSF for GNU projects, but it is just a recomendation. A little after that, since Okuji CC'd the bug-grub mailing list I figure, Jeremy Katz then e-mailed me too with some corrections. His were about who he was and Red Hat's current documentation of the feature (info pages). Thanks to both Okuji and Katz for taking their time in reviewing the HOWTO. Oh Okuji also said he'd like to link this HOWTO from the project site, let's see how that goes. I also added some new sections, specifically Section 3, and Appendix A and B. I also GPL'd this HOWTO. :-)May 2, 2003
By browsing through the debian sources, I realized this howto is now being referenced by the debian/README.Debian file (line 133) for further information regarding splashimage support. Yay. Thanks to Jason Thomas, the debian grub package mantainer, for this ;)May 1, 2003
So, you slackware users have brought up a good point. This howto does not yet provide a link to a patch, nor explains how to patch up your sources if you do. Well I'll start providing that now then. For now, I'll give you a directory which contains all the sources that the debian developers used to create the binary. So, for now check out the debian grub sources here. If you want the tarball of the entire debian sources, grab it here. I tried looking for the specific splashimage patch couldn't find it myself. If you find it please let me know which one it is so I can point it out here. If you get these sources to compile fine and work fine under slackware please let me know too as well. Thanks to Jonni Lehtiranta for bitching at me for not having slackware-specific instructions ;)April 30, 2003
So no one replied back from the bug-grub mailing list mailing list regarding how to find out if your current grub binary supports the splashimage feature. My Guess is that since this is an officialy unsupported feature not all grub hackers know much about the inner workings behind the feature. Because of this, and since I provided with the only nasty hack on how to find it, Joseph Monti will be using it for his grubconf project. If you can think of a better way of checking this than my way then please contact Monti and CC to me.April 9, 2003
How to figure out if the grub you've installed has spashimage support quickly? That is the question. If you know, please drop Joseph Monti a line and CC to me. I've written a simple bash script that checks some trivial stuff to see if you might have support for it, but I'm not too sure if this is right. Suggestions/ideas are welcome. I will post to the bug-grub mailing list now and see what they can suggest.April 8, 2003
Joseph Monti has just recently started a GTK-based grub configuration utility. Check it out. It's called GrubConf. Apparantly this howto is pretty decent ahd Joe might link to it from the help section of GrubConf. Yay. Maybe I'll make a debian package for it... once I get some time. Ebuilds are available for it from the project site (for gentoo users).April 4, 2003
I'd like to thank the many who have written e-mails to me telling me that the howto was useful. I'll start pointing out the countries from where people have written from:
- Italy
- Finland
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