Mixing SATA and PATA HDDs and M3B2 issues.

[barjac]

The theme was applied to the master-grub2 menu, it should now have the Mageia background and say "Master Boot Menu" in red at the top to distinguish it from the normal Mageia menus. As we set it up originally it should have had a plain blue background and all monospaced text like the text that appears in the terminal under grub2 when you hit 'c' at the menu.

No, no more steps, I guess you have it all set up and can play to your heart's content

Ask away - not sure if I will have the answers though
EDIT Although consider starting a new thread as this is already off topic.

[rc10b]

My question are in this thread:
https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=4483

[rc10b]

The theme was applied to the master-grub2 menu, it should now have the Mageia background and say "Master Boot Menu" in red at the top to distinguish it from the normal Mageia menus. As we set it up originally it should have had a plain blue background and all monospaced text like the text that appears in the terminal under grub2 when you hit 'c' at the menu.

I'm definitely not seeing the new theme in the master-grub2 menu. It's a plain blue background with the words "GNU GRUB version 2.00" in white letters at the top.

Here's the first part of my master-grub2 grub.cfg file:

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# Delay in seconds before booting default option
set timeout=10

# Default option to boot counting from 0.
set default="0"

function load_video {
  insmod vbe
  insmod vga
  insmod video_bochs
  insmod video_cirrus
}

insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2

if loadfont unicode; then
  load_video
  set gfxmode=1024x768
  insmod png
  insmod gfxterm
fi

  terminal_output gfxterm
  insmod gfxmenu

insmod gettext

set menu_color_normal=cyan/blue
set menu_color_highlight=yellow/blue

loadfont ($root)/boot/grub2/themes/maggy/DejaVuSans-Bold-14.pf2
loadfont ($root)/boot/grub2/themes/maggy/DejaVuSans-Bold-18.pf2
loadfont ($root)/boot/grub2/themes/maggy/DejaVuSans-Bold-24.pf2
set theme=($root)/boot/grub2/themes/maggy/theme.txt
export theme

################################################
#Add menu items here

[barjac]

Ah OK
What's the output of

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ls -l /master-grub2/boot/grub2 /master-grub2/boot/grub2/themes /master-grub2/boot/grub2/themes/maggy /master-grub2/boot/grub2/fonts

That's all one command.
It should be similar to this:-
http://paste.kde.org/688064/
Except that you will not have the locale folder on line 8 which is not needed.
Also please paste /master-grub2/boot/grub2/themes/maggy/theme.txt to that pastebin and post the link here.

[rc10b]

It does look very similar to the extent that I do have the locale folder as well.

Here's the output of /master-grub2/boot/grub2/themes/maggy/theme.txt:
http://paste.kde.org/688094/

[barjac]

Strange - please paste the full output of that files listing (to pastebin) - there is nothing wrong that I can see with grub.cfg or theme.txt.

[rc10b]

Here:
http://paste.kde.org/688184/

[barjac]

Yes - as you say that's all OK too. I just wondered if there may have been a permissions issue or something.
At the master boot menu hit 'c' and type 'lsfonts'
Do you see three 'DejaVu Sans Bold' fonts of different sizes and 'Unknown Regular 16' listed?
Also what does
echo $root
return at the same prompt?

OK got your PM - glad it's now all OK - I have updated the grub.cfg template earlier in this thread with the more compact version that you now have.

[rc10b]

Issuing the lsfonts command did show the fonts you specified and echo $root returned:

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hd0,msdos1

However it seems that my master-grub2 grub.cfg file was corrupted as the new file file that you sent me works correctly, thanks.