GRUB splash image creation:
Syslinux splash image creation:
- Open GIMP application.
- Create an image of size 640x480 pixels. You may open an existing image and resize it too.
- Reduce the number of colors to 14 by selecting menu item “Image->Mode->Indexed”. Don’t use any color dithering.
- Save the resulting image as splash.xpm and close GIMP.
- Compress the image file by running;
gzip splash.xpm - Copy the resulting splash.xpm.gz file to /boot/grub.
- Run update-grub to upgrade the grub configuration to include this splash image.
Syslinux splash image creation:
- Open GIMP application.
- Create an image of size 640x480 pixels. You may open an existing image and resize it too.
- Reduce the number of colors to 14 by selecting menu item “Image->Mode->Indexed”. Don’t use any color dithering.
- Save the resulting image as splash.ppm and close GIMP.
- Install the package syslinux-common by running;
apt-get install syslinux-commonas sudo/root. - Convert the saved image to syslinux format by running;
ppmtolss16 ‘#ffffff=7’ <splash.ppm >splash.rle - The resulting splash.rle image can be included in /boot/syslinux and syslinux.cfg file should be edited accordingly to include this splash image.
