Help to customize grub titles

[Tom H]

On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 12:33 PM, jerry <jerryturba at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Tom H wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 7:45 PM, jerry <jerryturba at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>
>>> I have a computer that I use for testing/experimenting and have several
>>> OSes on it. On the boot selection screen grub2 has some titles for the
>>> entries that are not clear, and I don't like.
>>> Now that there is no menu.lst is there any way to customize the titles
>>> of the distros on the boot menu? I have looked at the various grub files
>>> but none seem to have any place where I can customize the titles.
>>>
>>
>> You have to edit the /etc/grub.d/10_linux and /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober scripts.
>>
>>
> Thanks Tom for the help but editing a complex (for me) script like those
> is way beyond my knowledge.

You're welcome. You'd need _some_ scripting knowledge but not expert knowledge.