grub2 does not look for splash images in default grub2-splashimages location

[Niall Creech]

Binary package hint: grub2

the default search in /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme seems to be

{/boot/grub,/usr/share/images/desktop-base}/WhateverSplashImageYouWant.{png,tga}

but the images i get from grub2-splashimages are in /usr/share/images/grub

changing that line 16 to

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

fixes the /etc/grub/grub.conf generated from update-grub2 to find the splash though

[Alex Valavanis (valavanisalex)]

I can confirm this, but I'm not sure whether the bug belongs to the grub2 package or to grub2-splashimages. On a default installation, the /usr/share/images/grub path doesn't exist, so I guess it's the job of the grub2-splashimages installation script to add the path to /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme when it becomes needed.

[MM (mmme)]

In /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme I have this:

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

The grub2-splash get installed into /usr/share/images/grub/.

So what I've done for now to fix the problem is add in the path: (/usr/share/images/grub)

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

Leaving the images in /usr/share/images/grub/ isn't working, unless you add the path into /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

This should be easier with the new 05_debian_theme introduced recently in Natty. With that, you can set GRUB_BACKGROUND="/usr/share/images/grub/Windbuchencom.tga" (or similar) in /etc/default/grub and run 'sudo update-grub'.

grub2-splashimages' documentation should still be updated to match.