Re: how to resize and repositioned the GRUB menu triangle ?

[adrian15]

J.Bakshi escribió:
> > > > > > I am talking about the menu displayed by menu.lst How can I resize
> > > > > > and repositioned that menu ?    
> > > > > Ah, it's not a triangle but a rectangle.
> > > > >
> > > > > You should edit source code for doing this. If you are prepared to
> > > > > edit source code I might give you some clues on how to do that.
> > > please suggest how to do it ?
> > > thanks
> > Check stage2/stage2.c file.
> > Check the:
> >
> > static void
> > run_menu (char *menu_entries, char *config_entries, int num_entries,
> >       char *heap, int entryno)
> >
> > function and its line:
> >
> >       print_entries (3, 12, first_entry,
> >                  entryno, menu_entries);
> >
> > I think that changing 12 to 5 will force even if you have 20 boot
> > entries only 5 are displayed.
> >
> > If you change the 3 for some other value you can move up/down the menu
> > I think also.
> >
> > Hacking the print_entries function will also help.
> >
> > adrian15
>
> Hello Andrian,
> Thanks for your response. I think you have given a solution to force how
> many entries will be shown in the menu.
Maybe. I will check it again then.
> But I am also interested to resize the menu so that I can see the splash
> image properly.
Hummm.
> "viewport" command can do it. But i don't know why it is not there in 0.97.
0.97 does not include splashimage support thus it does not include the 
viewport command which I presume is a splashimage support patch command.
> Do you have any idea ?
Get 0.97 and patch it with the splashimage support patch and then you 
will be able to use the viewport command (if my assumption is correct).

adrian15