Hidden Linux : Easy GRUB editing
I've written before about tweaking GRUB manually. Forget all that. I've recently discovered a great integrated GUI way to manage your Linux bootloader.
QGRUBEditor and KGRUBEditor are actually two versions of the same great GRUB editor. The latter, based on KDE-4 libraries, is the one currently in active development, but unless you've upgraded to KDE-4 or don't mind downloading a ton of dependencies, the former works just fine.
Rather than a lot of useless blather, I'll let the screenshots do the talking. Note particularly the convenient way to create your own splash images in the GRUB Settings view!
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You'll find screenshots of KGRUBEditor here.
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Comments
qgrubeditor. unresolved permission issues after downloading with synaptic package manager and then trying to run the program
Posted by: nigel harrison | November 23, 2008 10:28 PM
A warning - the gnome version is a nice program but it didn't include the uuid line from my menu.lst which made the system (temporarily) unbootable. I went in via the terminal in the live Ubuntu CD, edited menu.lst and everything was fine again.
My entry should have looked like this:
title Ubuntu Intrepid
uuid fbb66685-0605-400f-b5f7-ab413e1461dd
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic root=UUID=fbb66685-0605-400f-b5f7-ab413e1461dd ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-7-generic
quiet
but the uuid line had been left out after the grub editor had saved it. First time I've ever gotten the grub splash working though so a case of one step backwards, two steps forwards.
Posted by: Grant Paton-Simpson | November 22, 2008 2:15 PM