grub splash screens revisited

[Klaus-Peter Schrage]

On Thursday 19 September 2002 22:54, Douglas J Hunley wrote:

> argh! screenshots man! screenshots! I'm not gonna reboot just to see what
> they are!
> of course, I could just unzip them and load them in an image viewer, but
> where's the fun in that?

I really would have liked to supply screenshots, believe me. But they should 
be genuine, ie showing the images with the real Grub menu. I would greatly 
appreciate if someone told me how to do that. I can imagine at least four 
possible ways, none of them really viable for me:
1. Take a shot of the native Grub boot screen - but how to accomplish that 
without a real OS running?
2. Simulate the boot screen in a linux terminal. You can use the Grub command 
'configfile=' to display the boot menu, but the splash screen doesn't get 
loaded.
3. Take a real photograph from the boot screen - but I don't have a digital 
camera.
4. Place the computer monitor displaying the Grub screen onto an office copier 
or scanner ;-)
Klaus