My best knowledge at this point is that the splashimage support was added to the CVS images. This conflicts with the previous plan to NOT include it until AFTER grub 1.0. I submitted a patch to add information to the grub README.Debian file.
I don't think this has changed, but I'm not sure. Regards, -- -- Grant Bowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Justin Whitney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020522 13:30]: > Thanks a lot, John. Is there any plan to integrate this functionality > into the standard grub packages, or create a separate grub-splashimage > package for example? As much as this sort of thing is in excess of the > more technical provisions of grub, users of other OS's are familiar with > it - which is to say, in making a switch, they would miss it. Integrating > it seems to me to be an easy way to add familiarity to what is to many > linux newcomers a foreign OS. > > --Justin Whitney > > > On Tue, 21 May 2002, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > > > On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 09:43:58PM -0400, Justin Whitney wrote: > > > Do any debian packages support splashimage= support for grub? > > > > i did find some splashimage= patches: > > > > http://people.redhat.com/~katzj/grub/patches/grub-0.91-vga16.patch > > and > > http://people.redhat.com/~katzj/grub/patches/grub-0.91-splashimagehelp.patch > > > > i was able to apt-get source grub, wget the two patches, cd to the > > grub-0.91 dir, apply the two patches, and debuild w/o error. > > > > -john -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
