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

[J.Bakshi]

adrian15 wrote:
> 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).

I have checked  http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/
for such patch but have not found anything.

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