Re: grub splashimage support?

[Jason Thomas <jason@debian.org>]

Hi all.

Basically upstream is not yet willing to support this. I'd like to have
it as well but don't want the extra burden to be all on me. Upstream is
planing to add this support after version 1.0 so they say. I was planing
to talk with one of the people that create these patches and see if they
are willing to support it.  I'd prefer not to add something that broke
and had to be removed at a later date.

So I'm not against the functionality, just having to support it by myself.

All this is in the README.Debian

Hope that helps.

On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 08:38:44AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> * Justin Whitney 
> 
> | 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.
> 
> I don't think the grub maintainer reads -boot, but perhaps he'd like
> to answer the question anyhow?  :)  (cc-ed)
> 
> | --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
> 
> -- 
> Tollef Fog Heen                                                        ,''`.
> UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are      : :' :
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-- 
Jason

"I hope you learn speaking English proper I hope speak I me you."
     -- Branden Robinson, 2001


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