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From: Matt Harrison <iwasinnamuknow@genestate.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu working but invisible
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:10:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48809649.2030300@genestate.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <488090F8.5090303@optonline.net>

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dhk wrote:
| So what is the solution to making grub visible again?  I remember when
| it changed, I didn't understand the message displayed and I still don't
| know the fix.
|
| Running emerge --config grub doesn't work.
|
| Is it as simple as changing the path of the splash image to
| /usr/share/grub/ and running grub-install?

I changed grub.conf so it points to the splashimage on my /usr partition
like so:

splashimage=(hd0,5)/share/grub/splash.xpm.gz

Just make sure you get the partition number right, remembering that grub
counts paritions from 0, not 1. This fixed it perfectly for me.

HTH

Matt
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-18 13:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-14 22:26 [gentoo-user] grub menu working but invisible Matt Harrison
2008-07-14 22:52 ` Dmitry S. Makovey
2008-07-14 23:00   ` Andrew Tchernoivanov
2008-07-14 23:14     ` Matt Harrison
2008-07-14 23:16       ` Matt Harrison
2008-07-14 23:40         ` Andrew Tchernoivanov
2008-07-15  6:50           ` Sebastian Günther
2008-07-15  7:54             ` Andrew Tchernoivanov
2008-07-18 12:47             ` dhk
2008-07-18 13:10               ` Matt Harrison [this message]
2008-07-18 17:14               ` Miika Linnapuomi

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