How to use Custom Splash Boot Image

Hi Guys,

Are you bored of same boot splash image which comes in the background of the Grub menu? If yes then I am gonna tell you how to change it and use a custom splash boot image.

Prerequisites:
- Any Image to be used as boot splash image(aman.jpg in my case)
- Gimp or similar tool to edit image.

Steps to go:

1) first of open the "image" in the program "gimp". Scale it and make it to 640x480.
Then, in gimp go to "Mode" and select "indexed" and then save it in png format.(aman.png in my case)

2) Now, convert this .png image into .xpm image using th command:
- convert aman.png -colors 14 aman.xpm
Now, compress it with gzip
- gzip aman.xpm.gz

3) Now, Copy the file aman.xpm.gz to /boot/grub (remember you need super user privilieges to do this)
- cp aman.xpm.gz /boot/grub

4) Now edit grub.conf to make splash image entry in it.
- vim /etc/grub.conf
    #edit the line starting with word "splashimage" as
   splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/aman.xpm.gz
 save and exit
remember aman.xpm.gz is the file you copied in the /boot/grub directory.

5) Reboot now and check the new splash image at you grub boot screen. You are done. Enjoy...:)