color_normal => The color of text and background outside the menu box.menu_color_normal => The color of non-selected menu entry and its background within the menu box.menu_color_highlight => The color of the highlighted menu entry and its background within the menu box.The following are the 3 main GRUB color setting that you can change. But it will still display the menu and its entries in the default color. Now we have placed our own image in GRUB. Talking about GRUB, you also might want to password protect your GRUB as we discussed earlier. Now, when you boot your machine, you will see the customized image in GRUB. Once changes has been done using any of the above methods, make sure you execute update-grub command as shown below.įound background: /usr/share/images/desktop-base/moreblue-orbit-splash.pngįound background image: /usr/share/images/desktop-base/moreblue-orbit-splash.pngįound linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-amd64įound initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-amd64 GRUB_BACKGROUND="/usr/share/images/desktop-base/moreblue-orbit-splash.png" GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
#Grub theme atomic update#
# If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update The following is the content of /etc/default/grub file on my system. So you can use any of the above in the order of priority to make GRUB display your own images. The file listed in the WALLPAPER line in /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme.The image specified in /usr/share/desktop-base/grub_background.sh.First image found in /boot/grub/ ( more images found, it will be taken alphanumerically ).GRUB_BACKGROUND line in /etc/default/grub.In grub-1.98, the splash image to be displayed will be searched in the following order. JPG/JPEG images must be 8-bit (256 color)īy default, if desktop-base package is installed, images conforming to the above specification will be located in /usr/share/images/desktop-base/ directory.The image must meet the following specifications: GRUB 2 can use PNG, JPG/JPEG and TGA images for the background. But these steps should also work on other similar Linux distros. The steps mentioned below were tested on Debian Squeeze with grub-1.98.
#Grub theme atomic how to#
This article explains how to change the GRUB background image. But starting from Debian Squeeze, GRUB adds a background image which looks good (better than the boring background colors). On Debian Lenny (and previous versions of Debian), you might have got tired of seeing a blue box with black background for GRUB when the Linux was booting up.