Now press “ESC”, to see the effect of your changes.Press ‘C’ to get into GRUB command line, and experiment as you wish.When the grub menu appears, press any key to stop the countdown.When you are not sure of what colors to choose, and you would like to experiment, then you can do it from the grub command-line itself. After making the above mentioned changes on my system, the GRUB screen looked like the following: Experiment with GRUB Colors You will notice the change in the font colors displayed. If changed, the image will not be transparent in the area where the menu is displayed.Īfter this change, execute “update-grub”, and reboot your system. Now to change the colors, open “/etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme” and find the following line: if thenĮcho " set color_normal=light-cyan/black"ĭon’t change the “black” present in color_normal. The following colors are supported by grub: black The syntax for specifying the color is as follows: menu_color_highlight=fg-color/bg-color color_normal => The color of text and background outside the menu box.menu_color_normal => The color of non-selected menu entry and its background within the menu box.menu_color_highlight => The color of the highlighted menu entry and its background within the menu box.The following are the 3 main GRUB color setting that you can change. But it will still display the menu and its entries in the default color. Now we have placed our own image in GRUB. Talking about GRUB, you also might want to password protect your GRUB as we discussed earlier. Now, when you boot your machine, you will see the customized image in GRUB. Once changes has been done using any of the above methods, make sure you execute update-grub command as shown below.įound background: /usr/share/images/desktop-base/moreblue-orbit-splash.pngįound background image: /usr/share/images/desktop-base/moreblue-orbit-splash.pngįound linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-amd64įound initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-amd64 GRUB_BACKGROUND="/usr/share/images/desktop-base/moreblue-orbit-splash.png" GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian` # If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update The following is the content of /etc/default/grub file on my system. So you can use any of the above in the order of priority to make GRUB display your own images.
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