Strange GRUB boot menu background

English Install/Boot/Login
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When I started my laptop in the evening two days ago on the train back home, I got this really strange GRUB boot menu background, sort of a Christmas-sy landscape with Tuxes skiing on the screen. After shutting off and rebooting, everything was back to normal, and I didn’t notice anything unusual with my SUSE installation.

(And no, I’m not abusing any illegal substances, nor any legal ones for that matter … )

Any one else experienced this? I shouldn’t suspect a virus/worm/etc., should I?

Best

homoludens

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It’s OK. It happens.

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Meaning that’s some sort of e-egg? Are there more surprises hidden, and when do they usually pop up?

… Hm, I’m not really annoyed with it, but I’d still like to know what’s going on inside my laptop. Not to mention that it was late and I was tired when it happened, so I honestly thought I might be hallucinating …

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Try pressing F8 on the bootloader of an install/live disc :wink:

Btw, the penguin splash thing usually pops up around christmas time and during winter.

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Dude relax. it’s some kind of Christmas fun I think. I’m not entirely sure how it all works, but it doesn’t seem to work properly for me.

Normal boot and re-boot all is OK/Normal

But I think if you try something like Ctrl-Alt-F1

to actually reboot after having done this you will need to go to CLI and go su and type: reboot
I get this Xmas splash then.

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The solution is pretty simple. GRUB in 11.1 is configured to show you the Christmas bootscreen randomly with an adjustable probability. If you wanna get rid of it, follow this comment by tom_enos and you’ll never see this bootscreen again openSUSE Christmas Greetings? - openSUSE Forums

HTH

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Yeah… actually I find it funny to hear that some people start of thinking their LINUX-system would be virus infected when seing such a great bootloader.
I got used to it and its great to watch it awhile as it’s still snowing outside.

Here is the appropriate thing you should do, homoludens1000: Get yourself a hot cup of tea and a cookie. :wink:
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have fun!*

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All, thanks a lot for the info. :slight_smile:

Gosh, smashing idea, I might heed your advice. Or perhaps I’ll first clutter up this forum by posting unnecessary comments, let me see … :wink: