Bug#565872: grub2-splashimages: Incoorect instructions in README

[David Creelman]

Package: grub2-splashimages
Version: 1.0.0
Severity: normal


The new grub looks like it has a nice future, well done with it so far.

I have a problem setting a splash image and the doco didn't seem to help me.

In README, there is an instruction as follows

...
    convert_system_path_to_grub_path /boot/grub/splashimages/some_file.tga

So, I thought it would be good to try setting up some of the quite nice
splash images supplied by doing 

convert_system_path_to_grub_path /usr/share/images/grub/Moraine_Lake_17092005.tga

at the end of /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme

After running update-grub, I get the following error

Generating grub.cfg ...
Warning: convert_system_path_to_grub_path() is deprecated.  Use prepare_grub_to_access_device() instead.

I got as far as looking up where prepare_grub_to_access_device is defined and
got lost trying to get it to work.
Suffice to say, I can't get a non-default splash image on my grub startup
screen.

Would it be possible to get the documentation updated with the correct call
so that changing the splash image is possible?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

grub2-splashimages depends on no packages.

grub2-splashimages recommends no packages.

Versions of packages grub2-splashimages suggests:
ii  grub-pc                  1.98~20100101-1 GRand Unified Bootloader, version 

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