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I think if you are upgrading an existing application it wouldn't necessarily be clobbering, as long as it doesn't interfere with other applications. I'd say grub probably doesn't have much influence on other apps.

I didn't know there was a difference between grub splash and bootsplash, so you can probably ignore that bit. However, I still don't see how grub could be installed via mydsl unless you have a persistent filesystem. Wouldn't it need to be already available before init is run?

Yes, it would need to be available beforehand. I think it is useful for livecd and frugal users if they install to hd on the same session, or if they have other OSs and wish to have a nice bootup eye candy. I'll take a picture of my grub screen, so you can see it ;)

Oh, and grub 0.97 does have a different set of stage1_5 files than the dsl grub, 0.91. Do the dropped ones need to be removed somehow, or can they just be left there in hope no-one uses them?

BTW, bootsplash is also possible. It's files are only used for creating the initrd, and possibly for animation. If the image is still, and the initrd somewhere persistent, it'll also work..
The kernel has to be patched, but it is kept uncompressed in frugal and livecd, I think..

Here's the screenshot:

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So sorry for the quality of the bigger image, I took it with my celly ;)
The black lines are also from the celly cam..

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Yes, it would need to be available beforehand.

I personally wouldn't trust an extension that touches my MBR. I would openly and probably very loudly discourage others from using one.

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I think it is useful for livecd and frugal users if they install to hd on the same session, or if they have other OSs and wish to have a nice bootup eye candy. I'll take a picture of my grub screen, so you can see it ;)

How long do you let GRUB run before it boots a default, and is that worth "eye candy"? I set mine to 10 seconds since I generally want my default loaded and it doesn't take me that long to move down to my other options if I need to. I can live without any fancy graphics for that long. Maybe others can't. I don't think some 10-30 second "eye candy" is worth enabling a script that affects my MBR in any manner.

lucky13, you are a bit wrong about that. The extension won't touch your MBR if you don't tell it to. The pic has nothing to do with MBR, nor does it require any script. The modified grub puts the same thing into MBR as an unmodified. The pic is shown with a line in menu.lst:
splashimage (hd0,0)/boot/grub/Coolpic.xpm.gz
And my grub is shown for 7s, but it is quite cool to have something else than a black screen with text

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