Re: Why does big black box appear over by GRUB2 theme when booting?

[Andrei Borzenkov]

Отправлено с iPhone

> 8 июня 2016 г., в 22:02, Ed Hartnett <address@hidden> написал(а):
> 
> I made a nice GRUB2 theme, which gives me a screen like this:
> 
> http://s33.postimg.org/qe6gm7e0f/screen_small.png
> 
> When I make my selection and start to boot, for about 10 seconds a big
> black box appears over the screen. Then the whole screen goes away and the
> boot proceeds.
> 
> It looks like this:
> 
> http://s33.postimg.org/ehb5qqkkv/screen_blocked_small.png
> ​
> Why is the black box appearing? Is

This where grub prints messages during execution of menu entry. It is the same 
command line window you get when pressing 'c'.

> there any way for me to stop it showing?
> 

Not really. I remember openSUSE once had a patch to make this window background 
fully transparent.  IIRC the patch was dropped because it caused screen 
corruption. If you are really interested, you could try to fix it - I will dig 
out reference for you. Just tell :)

> The files for the alien theme can be found on GitHub here:
> https://github.com/edhartnett/alien_theme
> 
> Thanks,
> Ed
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