Re: Why does big black box appear over by GRUB2 theme when booting?

[Ed Hartnett]

Howdy Andrei!

Thanks for your response. Indeed the big black box is the terminal-box.
Although I can change its borders with the terminal_boc_X.png files, I
cannot do anything about the big black box.

If Andrei or anyone has any further information on how to fix this,
including info about a possible patch to GRUB2, please let me know.

Thanks,
Ed

On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 1:26 PM, Andrei Borzenkov <address@hidden>
wrote:

>
>
> Отправлено с iPhone
>
> > 8 июня 2016 г., в 22:02, Ed Hartnett <address@hidden>
> написал(а):
> >
> > I made a nice GRUB2 theme, which gives me a screen like this:
> >
> > http://s33.postimg.org/qe6gm7e0f/screen_small.png
> >
> > When I make my selection and start to boot, for about 10 seconds a big
> > black box appears over the screen. Then the whole screen goes away and
> the
> > boot proceeds.
> >
> > It looks like this:
> >
> > http://s33.postimg.org/ehb5qqkkv/screen_blocked_small.png
> > ​
> > Why is the black box appearing? Is
>
> This where grub prints messages during execution of menu entry. It is the
> same command line window you get when pressing 'c'.
>
> > there any way for me to stop it showing?
> >
>
> Not really. I remember openSUSE once had a patch to make this window
> background fully transparent.  IIRC the patch was dropped because it caused
> screen corruption. If you are really interested, you could try to fix it -
> I will dig out reference for you. Just tell :)
>
> > The files for the alien theme can be found on GitHub here:
> > https://github.com/edhartnett/alien_theme
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ed
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