Help to customize grub titles

jerry jerryturba at sbcglobal.net
Sun Aug 1 17:12:58 UTC 2010


I Am Me wrote:
> On Saturday 31 Jul 2010 10:03:22 pm jerry wrote:
>   
>> Thanks Tom for the help but editing a complex (for me) script like those 
>> is way beyond my knowledge.
>> Jerry
>>
>>     
>
> In that case you can try this crude workaround
>
> You will have to edit /boot/grub/grub.cfg 
> Find lines that have menuentry in them and modify the text in quotes that follow it
> the Quoted text is what you see on the GRUB2 menu
> That is all, the next time you reboot the machine you will see the changes on the GRUB menu.
>
> Here is grub2 conf file
>
> d*_*b &ru iamme@ .\~ $ cat /boot/grub/grub.cfg | grep menuentry
> menuentry "Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.31-22-generic" {
> menuentry "Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.31-22-generic (recovery mode)" {
> menuentry "Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.31-14-generic" {
> menuentry "Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.31-14-generic (recovery mode)" {
> menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+)" {
> menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+, serial console 115200)" {
> menuentry "Windows NT/2000/XP (loader) (on /dev/sda2)" {
> d*_*b &ru iamme@ .\~ $
>
>   
Thanks andrew that worked perfectly.
Jerry






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