Bug#328630: grub-splashimages: splashimages fail to install when system has a separate /boot partition

[Michael Firkins]

Package: grub-splashimages
Version: 1.0
Severity: normal


On installing the package, no errors were seen on the console. No splashimages were evident on the filesystem after install either :(

Using find, I determined that none had been installed. Reading /usr/share/doc/grub-splashimages/README offers no helpful information.

dpkg -x on the .deb extracts the images, but they are also unusable for some reason. update-grub looks in /boot/grub/ for splash.xpm.gz and if it 
finds it, adds it to the menu.lst. A system with a separate /boot would have the file at /boot/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz

Modifying update-grub to look in the correct place fixes that problem, but the resultant config just scrambles the boot screen on boot. 

I don't know if the images are invalid, if there is a problem with the kernel, or some other missing link. There is so little documentation that it 
is not simple to work out what is wrong.

~$ dpkg -l|grep grub
ii  grub           0.95+cvs200406 GRand Unified Bootloader
ii  grub-splashima 1.0            a collection of great GRUB splashimages

~$ df
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5             11016432   1521040   8935780  15% /
tmpfs                   254332         0    254332   0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda1                49743     22221     24954  48% /boot
/dev/hda2             65363884  11594540  50449020  19% /home

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages grub-splashimages depends on:
ii  grub                 0.95+cvs20040624-17 GRand Unified Bootloader

-- no debconf information

Regards,

Michael