[ubuntu-uk] A GUI Grub editor?

Andrew Barber andrew.alex.barber at gmail.com
Mon Feb 26 09:30:33 GMT 2007


I thought YaST was now opensource? I am sure I saw a port to Gentoo at
some point too. I wonder if we could take a look at this and work on
this idea.

On 26/02/07, Scrase, Eddie <escrase.uk at wentworthlabs.com> wrote:
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> > Meanwhile, back at the ranch, I make the point that a gui grub editor
> > would have a strong value for that precious breed - newbies. Maybe
> > there is a gui grub editor easily available  for (k)ubuntu, but it did
> > not appear in my searches.
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> The only such thing that I've come across is Suse's Yast utility, which is
> Suse only unfortunately.
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> I agree that it would be useful to have such GUI, and not only for the
> newbies - I am more than capable to opening a terminal, finding GRUB's
> configuration file, and then editing it, but would prefer to use a GUI if
> one was available.  Even if I don't change the default boot on a new system,
> I usually end up editing this file to change the timeout.
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