how to make a splash image

splash image is a image with extension *.xpm.gz

you can look a image when GRUB is loading

follow this instruction now :

1. open a terminal then type sudo su and then you must enter the password
2. now you login as a root in your terminal
3. make a new folder, for save a splash image mkdir /boot/grub/images
4. copy a splash image into it folder (if you dont have an image download in this link ) cp path_image /boot/grub/images
5. and then you can open menu.lst in a text editor gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
6. type  splashimage /boot/grub/images/nameofaspalshimage.xpm.gz in the line 5
7. save and reboot