grub splash screens?

[Klaus-Peter Schrage]

Douglas J Hunley wrote:
> anyone got links to good splash screens for grub? or for info on making your 
> own?

Didn't find anything about it, so I looked at the way RedHat did it (the 
following line is taken from my grub.conf):
	splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
I tried out several images which I had taylored in Gimp to 640x480 xpm 
format (you can use non-gzipped xpm files), but they usually looked quit 
scrambled.
Finally I found the following hint in the Grub info file:
Command: splashimage file
      Select an image to use as the background image.  This should be
      specified using normal GRUB device naming syntax.  The format of
      the file is a gzipped xpm which is 640x480 with a 14 color palette.

So you can use The Gimp, which allows defining custom color palettes, to 
create your own splashimages.
Klaus