A pretty retro GRUB theme inspired by the boot up visuals on Silicon Graphics systems like the Indy.
- Determine if you want to use 1080p or a higher resoultion for GRUB. Keep in mind that using a higher resolution may result in high console input latency on some machines.
- You want to use >=1080p: Delete the beginning hash/number symbol from
SGI/theme.txt, lines 48 - 54. Then follow additional instructions in step 3. - You DON'T want to use >=1080p: Leave the files be.
- You want to use >=1080p: Delete the beginning hash/number symbol from
- Copy the
SGIfolder into your GRUB's themes directory, e.g./boot/grub/themes/. You may need root privileges. - Set
GRUB_THEMEin your GRUB configuration (e.g. in/etc/default/grub) to point to the newly-copied directory.- IF you want to use >=1080p: Make sure
GRUB_GFXMODE=1920x1080.
- IF you want to use >=1080p: Make sure
- Rebuild the GRUB configuration. (e.g.
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg)