Help to customize grub titles

[Tom H]

On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 1:12 PM, jerry <jerryturba at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> 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.

You'll have to repeat your edits after every run of update-grub.