Interesting recovery frustrations
Cybe R. Wizard
cyber_wizard at mindspring.com
Thu Dec 16 09:23:48 UTC 2010
On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 16:34:23 -0600
"Cybe R. Wizard" <cyber_wizard at mindspring.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 12:07:13 -0800
> MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > uestions that arise from this for me are:
> >
> > 1. First and foremost, why do we have such an unbelievably arcane
> > method of influencing or controlling the boot process? There isn't
> > a single facility to display what grub will do or what its settings
> > are other than to read the fairly complex set of files used to
> > generate the grub.cfg file. Even something as simple as a
> > grub-show-me-what-the-heck-yo're-going-to-do-on-the-next-boot is not
> > available.
>
> Grub Customizer - A graphical Grub2/BURG configuration application
>
> Grub Customizer is a graphical interface to configure the grub2/burg
> settings with focus on the individual list order - without losing the
> dynamical behavior of grub - also usable on live cds.
> Settings like the background or timeouts are also changeable using
> Grub Customizer.
>
> It's in, "Main."
>
> Cybe
My apologies, it is in:
http://ppa.launchpad.net/danielrichter2007/grub-customizer/ubuntu/dists/maverick/main
I found it at:
http://www.webupd8.org/2010/11/grub-customizer-20-can-change-default.html
Instructions are on the page.
Cybe R. Wizard
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