Changing the grub menu default

Colin Law clanlaw at gmail.com
Thu Jan 8 08:56:11 UTC 2015


On 7 January 2015 at 21:36, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 01/06/2015 08:04 AM, Nils Kassube wrote:
>> Bill Stanley wrote:
>>> I want to change the default settings of the grub menu.  More
>>> specifically, can I use the simple emacs editor that pressing <e> at
>>> the grub boot up menu?
>>
>> No, that editor doesn't save the changes. Please have a look at
>> <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2/Setup#Configuring_GRUB_2> for
>> details of how to change the defaults.
>>
>>
>> Nils
>>
>>
>
> And you might find this useful (I do) as a quick gui solution:
>
> <https://launchpad.net/grub-customizer>
>   <https://launchpad.net/~danielrichter2007/+archive/ubuntu/grub-customizer>
> <http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2014/04/install-grub-customizer-ubuntu-1404/>

Thanks for bringing that to our attention Nils, I was not aware of it
previously and it looks as if it could be useful.

Colin




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