Как самому сделать картинку для GRUB

Необходимое условие – размер 640×480, 14 цветов, xpm формат, сжатие gzip’ом.

Воспользуемся GIMP’ом.

Для начала необходимо в папку /usr/share/gimp/2.0/scripts положить cкрипт grub-pixmap.scm следующего содержания:

; Copyright (c) 2002, Mark A. Moss
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; Send me an e-mail to moss7552@kettering.edu if you have any problems with this
; script.
(define (script-fu-grub-pixmap img drw filename)
  (gimp-undo-push-group-start img)
  (gimp-image-scale img 640 480)
  (gimp-convert-indexed img 1 0 14 0 0 "")
  (gimp-undo-push-group-end img)
  (gimp-file-save 0 img drw filename filename)
)
(script-fu-register    "script-fu-grub-pixmap"
          "/File/Grub Boot Image..."
          "Save this image in the format used by the Grand Unified Boot Loader. (http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/)"
          "Mark Moss"
          ""
          "January 31, 2002"
          "*"
          SF-IMAGE "Input Image" 0
          SF-DRAWABLE "Input Layer" 0
          SF-FILENAME "Output File" "splash.xpm.gz"
)

Запускаем GIMP, открываем любую понравившуюся картинку и в меню “Файл” выбираем “Grub Boot Image…”. В появившемся диалоговом окне указываем, куда сохранить готовое изображение.