Re: GRUB legal disclaimers before the menu

[Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>]

On Wed 04 Feb 2015 at 09:28:23 +0000, Bhasker C V wrote:

> I did try the multiple-menu entries but the moment I put a dummy entry
> the menu entry does not appear at all !
> 
> The only other way is painfully use the echo command
> 
> echo <line1>
> echo <line2>
> ..
> sleep 5
> 
> which will delay the boot by 5 seconds unconditionally.
> 
> One of the suggestions on IRC was to modify the code to do this but I
> do not want to do this on production servers since once modified then
> it becomes my responsibility to maintain and patch the grub code.

In /etc/default/grub have

  GRUB_THEME="/boot/grub/theme.txt"

My theme.txt includes a background image and custom fonts but basically
amounts to this:

# General settings
title-text: "GNU GRUB 1.99"
title-color: "white"
message-color: "black"
message-bg-color: "#fff"

# Help information at the bottom of the screen
+ vbox {
        left = 4%
        top = 85%
          + label {
                  text = "A line of text"
                  color = "black"
          }
         + label {
                  text = "Another line of text"
                  color = "black"
          }
         + label {
                  text = "And so on"
                  color = "black"
          }
}       

# Menu
+ boot_menu {
        left = 60
        width = 72%
        top = 28%
        height = 50%
        selected_item_color = "black"
        item_height = 26
        item_padding = 0
        item_spacing = 1
        item_color = "green"
}