Editing / Adding Grub 2 Menu Entries (Ubuntu 9.10 and Up)

http://quesomanrulz.com/ / http://twitter.com/quesoman - Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) is the latest and certainly greatest from the Ubuntu flavor of Linux. Shipping with Ubuntu 9.10 is a heavily modified version of the classic bootloader "GRUB". This is honestly the only thing I find negative about Karmic, I feel that GRUB 2 is certainly a downgrade, at least from an end-user standpoint. Not only do I feel that it does not look as good, what with its solid and primitive appearance, it is incredibly more complicated to configure than the previous bootloader...read more:

Text Guide: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1195275

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[MrRaja04]

nice tutorial... btw i am also asking the same question..., what is the screen recorder? I think it is the best one.

[quesomanrulz]

I recorded this using Ubuntu in a Virtual Machine in windows and recording it with Camtasia Studio. There aren't any decent screen recorders for Ubuntu itself...

[iPCAdministrator]

What screen recorder did you use? Also how did you get sound?

[quesomanrulz]

I recorded this using Ubuntu in a Virtual Machine in windows and recording it with Camtasia Studio. There aren't any decent screen recorders for Ubuntu itself...

[cooldavid08]

doesnt work for me when i run the terminal to open 40_custom the gedit comes up blank but i find the 40_custom in /ect/grub.d/ but its read only and it doest let me edit. please help :(

[quesomanrulz]

you have to enter in the command to gain admin permissions to edit the file, that is done by prefixing the command with "sudo" so you need to enter: "sudo gedit /etc/grub.d/40_custom", type your password, and it will open a non-blank gedit window.

[javamanV3]

@mentex70 don't know if you got help -

When a new version of Linux comes out and you update it is added to /boot with all the others. Grub looks there and takes all of them! What i have been doing (and it works ) is to mkdir /boot/linux.old

and then move all files from anything older than 1 version back into linux.old Grub then only sees current and 1 back...

[PSfreek3]

when i do this, it adds two more. how do i delete the other one?

So that i have: Windows 7 on the top and Ubuntu as second one?

[ThePunk39]

yes i liked the linux tutorial please do more

[s200784b]

@quesomanrulz recordmydesktop for ubuntu is much better than camtasia as for the quality

[germanislas89]

you know you can just edit the content from the regular grub.cfg file you jjust delete the entries you dont want from were it says menuentry to the } :)

[Moggridge1]

Thank you, very clear and very helpful

[MinpAndCorey4Eva]

@quesomanrulz your fucking amazing.

[sandjora]

So, when the system is updated, this means that a new entry must be manually added to file 40_custom?

[mentex70]

@quesomanrulz

Hi! thanks for this info, but it seems i didn't understand, anyway my question & what i want is to remove this menu entries, because everytime i make update it gives me another version & the old version still there, before it was 2.6.35.22 i update it became 2.6.35.23, i updated again 2.6.35.24, the bad thing for me is the old version from 22 & 23 still in menu entry. so i want to remove these 22 & 23. Thanks 4 ur help

[Thesilverpox]

nice one, thanks.