Re: The submenu command shows a text-based menu when using a GFX theme.

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

On 26.02.2012 17:20, Towheed Mohammed wrote:
> I have tested this on separate distros, including but not limited to: 
> ArchLinux, Debian (and Debian-based distros), Slackware, Fedora, VectorLinux 
> and openSUSE (some others I can't recall ATM), all with and without separate 
> /boot partitions and all with GRUB 1.99 installed..  Actually, my demo theme is 
> located in /usr/share/grub and not in /boot/grub.  As it is, the fully 
> qualified filename works as intended.  Placing the themes in /usr/share/grub 
> removes the incompatibility of having a separate /boot partition and also 
> removes any incompatibility from  some distro that use /boot/grub2 instead of 
> /boot/grub.
Then think about a separate /usr. theme files are static and have no way 
of knowing about adjusted for some reason directories.
Moreover / and /usr may be unavailable to GRUB, e.g. it may be on NFS or 
encrypted. We can assume only that the $prefix with subdirectories and 
files needed to boot OS (in case of GNU/Linux it's Linux and initrd in 
/boot, other OS may have files outside /boot which may assume readable 
e.g. /mach_kernel for xnu).
That's the reason I've adjusted grub-install to copy theme and fonts to 
$prefix/themes resp $prefix/fonts.

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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko