Grub2 is actually OK...

I think it may still need a bit of work on Fedora's implementation of Grub 2, but it is tolerable.  I still like the manual updates of the older grub.  The thing that had irritated me the most, was probably the simplest to remedy - the boot splash screen, or menu screen.  (spalsh.xpm.gz previously).  The grub 2 implementation removes a lot of the complexity of changing that image also.
You no longer have to:  ensure it's a certain size, has a certain color pallete, has the layers flattened, then run some conversion on the image.  In hindsight - the old method really kind of sucked.

Here is the /etc/default/grub that I am currently using:



#grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
#grub2-mkfont --output=/boot/grub2/unicode.pf2 /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSansMono.ttf
GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="Fedora"
GRUB_DEFAULT=saved
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rd.lvm.lv=vg_neo/lv_swap rd.md=0 rd.dm=0  KEYTABLE=us quiet SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 rhgb rd.luks=0 rd.lvm.lv=vg_neo/lv_root LANG=en_US.UTF-8"
# Custom stuff 
GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true"  # Removes the Linux Recovery
GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT="true"             # Should make the system save your last choice
GRUB_GFXMODE=1600x900x16            # Not sure this is necessary
GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep  # Not sure this is necessary
GRUB_BACKGROUND=/boot/grub/splash-tree.tga  # This tells grub what image to use for a splash




Then run...

[root@neo default]# sh `head -2 grub | sed 's/\#//g'`

The comment at the top are just there as a reminder for the command you need to run after updating the file.
The comment at the bottom reminds me how to update the chosen font.  My updates follow the comment # Custom stuff
The blue comments are not present in my actual grub file - I added them just for this example.


I put my splash image in /boot as it's still a "standard Linux (type 83)" filesystem.