Re: Customization of GRUB2

[Seth Goldberg]

It should be noted that use of the generation scripts is optional and  
may not be used on some systems...

  --S

On Dec 4, 2009, at 1:25 PM, Robert Millan <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 11:04:56PM +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' 
>  Serbinenko wrote:
> > Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> > > Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> > > > Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> > > > > I am trying to provide documentation about GRUB2 (1.97.1)
> > > > > customization for the Linux From Scratch book.  I am having  
> > > > > quite a
> > > > > bit of trouble finding anything describing how to set up a splash
> > > > > screen directly in grub.cfg.
> > >
> > > > Could you help us with documenting grub better? Patches against  
> > > > texinfo
> > > > manual are welcome
> > >
> > > I may be able to do that, however, I need to learn it myself.
> > > I don't really mind reading code either, but a general idea about
> > > where the drawing of the menu entries is located would be helpful.
> > >
> > > I quick check shows that GRUB2 has 287 .c files, but I suspect that
> > > most of the menu customization is handled in the term/ directory.
> > Actually most is in normal/ and gfxmenu/. Some stuff is in term/ 
> > gfxterm.c
>
> And util/ (notably, util/grub.d) for the menu generation scripts.
>
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