Filed under: Utilities, Linux, Open Source
Ubuntu tip: Use Startup Manager to edit your boot menu
by Brad Linder Oct 10th 2008 at 5:00PM
It's relatively simple to tweak your GRUB menu by editing the menu.lst file hanging out in the grub directory of your Ubuntu file system's boot folder. You can change the boot order of the operating systems. Or you can adjust the countdown clock. But if you make a mistake, you could also make it quite difficult to load either Ubuntu or Windows.
Startup Manager, or SUM provides an easier way to edit your GRUB menu. You can find SUM in the Synaptic package manager or by typing "sudo apt-get install startupmanager" into a terminal window. Or you can just click this link.
Once it's installed, you can access Startup Manager from the System -> Administration menu. The utility lets you change the default operating system, adjust the screen resolution of the GRUB menu, and even alter the background and text colors. You can adjust the countdown timer, set a password, or alter a number of other settings. And there's fairly little risk of messing up your boot menu beyond all repair.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Matias Korhonen said 5:56PM on 10-10-2008
Good enough, I suppose, but I personally prefer QGrubEditor, for those times that I'm working on Ubuntu. Though most of the time I find it easier to just edit the configuration manually through VIM (not the best solution for newbies, of course)...
http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/admin/qgrubeditor
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Jack said 7:24PM on 10-10-2008
The apt link doesn't work :(
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David said 10:01PM on 10-10-2008
This is good to know! In the past I've just had to manually edit the file, but this is much less risky!
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kojo87 said 10:01PM on 10-10-2008
i know this is rather unrelated but i cant find the answer anywhere. im trying to install Ubuntu to its own HDD on my desktop but i cant even boot into the live CD. instead i get some Busybox 1.13 or something and i cant continue. i tried this with x86, x64 and Xubuntu x64. all did the same thing.
i put Ubuntu on my Laptop no problem
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J.T. Mill said 11:28PM on 10-10-2008
You should try the alternate install CD.
kojo87 said 7:19AM on 10-11-2008
i tried with 3 different discs. same thing every time.
arky said 7:19AM on 10-11-2008
update-usplash-theme is command line tool that does that same. Its is bundled with usplash package itself.
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moon said 12:03PM on 10-11-2008
I ordered the CD, and Linux Ubuntu still can't find the router in order to connect to the internet.
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Christian said 1:26PM on 10-13-2008
I wonder if this can be done with Linux Mint too...
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Mark said 10:54AM on 10-14-2008
Great! More ubuntu related downloads please..
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8b2e2560 said 11:33AM on 10-19-2008
I hope that Ubuntu 8.10 due out October 30, 2008 will be able to find the router like Vista did, to connect to the internet.
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moonshadow4u said 3:54PM on 10-29-2008
1 more day to go for Ubuntu 8.10 release :-)
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