Splash screen:
Splash screen is nothing but the picture that’s gets displayed in the background while booting the Linux operating system.
Splash screen definitions are defined in the grub.conf file and this splash screen image file resides inside the /boot partition.
RHEL 6 shows Blank screen as default splash screen. So if you are bore of this blank screen & want to change it to whatever you like. here is, what you need to perform 5 simple steps that will change this splash screen.
So that’s why written the post about “steps to change the Linux Splash screen”.
Before proceeding we need to change the image pixel resolution for this purpose we should have “ImageMagick” software installed on the Linux system. Now let’s perform. I have taken UxTechno Logo as splash screen image.
- Covert the pixel depth
convert -depth 8 -colors 14 -resize 640x480 uxtechno_logo.jpg uxtechno_logo.xpm
Definition of above option is as follows:
It has to be max 14 colors
It has got to be 640×480 resolution
It should be in xpm format
- Now gzip the file
gzip uxtechno_logo.xpm
- Now copy this file to /boot partition.
cp uxtechno_logo.xpm.gz /boot/grub/
- Now change the splashimage parameter in /boot/grub/grub.conf File. As below & save the file.
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/ uxtechno_logo.xpm.gz
5. Now reboot the server using reboot command.
#reboot
The boot screen will display the splash image as below (Please note that I have taken the UXTechno logo as an example of splash screen)
