How to add a splashmage in GRUB2 (1)

 1) Download the free, already-made splashimages from the Ubuntu repositories

sudo apt-get install grub2-splashimages

 2) You'll find your new splashimages in /usr/share/images/grub/
Copy the images to /boot/grub, that way if someone has an installation with a separate /boot with an encrypted file system for / , they can still use the images. (GRUB can't 'see' inside an encrypted file system).

sudo cp /usr/share/images/grub/*.tga /boot/grub/

 3) Here are the thumbnails,

050817-N-3488C-028.tga	2006-02-15_Piping.tga	Aesculus_hippocastanum _fruit.tga	Apollo_17_The_Last_ Moon_Shot_Edit1.tga
B-1B_over_the_pacific _ocean.tga	BonsaiTridentMaple.tga	Flower_jtca001.tga	Fly-Angel.tga
Glasses_800_edit.tga	Hortensia-1.tga	Lake_mapourika_NZ.tga	Moraine_Lake_17092005 .tga
Plasma-lamp.tga	Sparkler.tga	TulipStair_QueensHouse _Greenwich.tga	Windbuchencom.tga

 
4) To get your new splashimage to appear, you need to edit a file called /etc/grub/ 05_debian_theme.

gksudo gedit /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme

 5) scroll down in the file and find line 16 or 17

 6) change the following code in line 16 or 17 from:

for i in {/boot/grub,/usr/share/images/desktop-base}/moreblue-orbit-grub.{png,tga} ; do

 to replace 'moreblue-orbit-grub' with the name of the splashimage of your choice)

for i in {/boot/grub,/usr/share/images/desktop-base}/Windbuchencom.{png,tga} ; do

  NOTE: Be careful to keep the dot in the filename! eg: 'Windbuchencom.'

  Save and close the file.

  7) Run grub-mkconfig (Karmic Koala), or update-grub (in earlier versions of Ubuntu),

sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

The grub-mkconfig or update-grub command is to write the changes to your grub-conf file.

The expected feedback should look something like this,

[sudo] password for username: Updating /boot/grub/grub.cfg … Found Debian background: Windbuchencom.tga Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-7-generic Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin done

 

8) That's it! All done! Now you can reboot and see how it looks!