Re: grub menu colors work but always a black screen

[Goh Lip]

On 09/09/2012 09:38 AM, Greg White wrote:
> I removed the extra lines and now I have black background with a blue
> menu and white text.  I was trying different color combinations until
> something worked.  It looks better now that the extra lines are gone,
> but I think an all blue screen with white text would look better.  Is
> there any way to get rid of the black background?


For that, you need to set up themes (with plain blue/transparent 
background perhaps). But I do not personally use any theme, just text.
If others here want to show how that's done (with themes), that will be 
good.

You may want to try "gfxmode=640x480" to get a bigger menu table space.
But that will still result with a black background, albeit smaller.
Now that I noticed, it is not 'set default', 'set gfxmode', etc..., 
just.......

default=2
timeout=30
# terminal console
gfxmode=1440x900x32
#set gfxpayload=keep

no need for gfxpayload=keep

If this is generated through an OS (I think you are using your own 
grub), you need to reset through /etc/default/grub  etc and 'update-grub'.

Cheers.