[TriLUG] Graphical Grub

Matt Jezorek matt at bluelinux.org
Wed Oct 24 08:04:32 EDT 2001


Mandrake has a graphical Lilo as well as one of the first flavors to come up
with a graphical boot screen instead of the

Loading Kernel Modules
[OK]

blah blah

Looks good with what they did.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Tanner Lovelace" <lovelace at wayfarer.org>
To: <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 2:24 AM
Subject: [TriLUG] Graphical Grub


> Greetings everyone,
>
> I understand that the new Redhat uses Grub as its default
> boot loader.  I also understand that it has added a patch to
> grub to allow it to operate in a graphical mode.  I would like
> to try this out on my mandrake system, and have found the appropriate
> patches from the src rpm files in order to compile graphical
> grub.  What I am missing, however, is a good example configuration
> file that shows just how the graphical mode of grub works.  I was
> wondering if anyone out there who has installed the latest version
> of Redhat would mind sharing their configuration file.  It should
> be called /boot/grub/menu.lst (although, I think that redhat
> may have changd it to /boot/grub/grub.conf).  If anyone would
> mind posting a working (in graphical mode, of course) version
> of their configuration file, I would very much appreciate it.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Tanner Lovelace
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