Use gfxboot to beautify the Grub boot menu

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Linux users who use Debian may know that the default Grub boot menu of Debian is rather ugly, but it is simply a black and white text, which can be said to be quite a hacker,

What we can do at this time is to find some beautiful splashimage for beautification. Users who have tried Suse may be deeply impressed with the Suse Startup menu. Now we use

Gfxboot beautifies the Grub boot menu to achieve a similar Suse effect. (PS: MS gfxboot is developed by Suse)

1. Download gfxboot
Http://www.mvpdream.org/blog/grub-gfxboot_0.97-5_i386.deb wget-c

2. Download the message package
Http://www.mvpdream.org/blog/message.tar.bz2 wget-c

3. Delete the old Grub package
Aptitute remove grub

4. Install gfxboot
Dpkg-I grub-gfxboot_0.97-5_i386.deb

5. decompress the message package
Cd/boot
Tar-xvf message.tar.bz2

6. Install Grub
/Sbin/grub-install/dev/sda
Note: Determine sda or hda based on your hard disk type.

7. Configure Grub
Run the grub command. The grub prompt appears. Run the following commands in sequence:
Grub> find/boot/grub/stage1
Grub> root (hd0, 0)
Grub> setup (hd0)
Note: The root part parameters are determined based on the above find results.

8. Configure the Startup File
Vim/boot/grub/menu. lst
Write the following statement below the timeout configuration line:
Gfxmenu (hd0, 0)/boot/message. ububrown
Here, message. ububrown is the startup screen file obtained by extracting the message package.

9 restart
That 'all ~~ Enjoy it ~~