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Both Mandrake and Suse do this.  You might check out the boot process 
there.  There is the following in my grub menu:

gfxmenu (hd0,5)/boot/message

Turns out, message is actually a cpio archive.  One of the items 
included there is a background.pcx which is the boot image displayed by 
Suse on boot.

The other files in the cpio are as follows:

16x16.font:      data
background.pcx:  PCX ver. 3.0 image data bounding box [0, 0] - [639, 
479], 8-bit colour, 72 x 72 dpi, RLE compressed
help.en:         data
init:            data
lang:            ASCII text
languages:       ASCII text
texts.en:        data
translations.en: ASCII text

Hope that helps.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey


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