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Idea #22223: Manage the Grub menu is a bit complicated.

bug This idea is a duplicate of Idea #21151: Improve Grub2 to Make Multiboot Easier.
Written by Fabian Andres the 2 Nov 09 at 20:07. Category: System. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
Rationale
For novice users, the task to add a new system to the grub menu or customize it may be difficult. Even sometimes it's hard for experienced users. From GRUB 2 it has become even more difficult to modify.
Tags: customize grub

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Solution #1: Startup Administration
Written by Fabian Andres the 2 Nov 09 at 20:07.
This should be an application placed in

System > Administration > Startup Administration

Like this one:


KGRUBEditor

(KGRUBEditor unfortunately only works with the old Grub, not with GRUB2.)

Of course, the application would need Root permissions to start (The user should type his password). It would be nice if an application like this was natively installed.



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Solution #2: Extension to solution #1. Option to show/hide elements in the list
Written by Gusiluz the 9 Nov 09 at 11:52.
'Recovery mode', 'Last successful boot', 'Memtest' and 'Other operating systems' lines could also have a check box to show/hide the element. Maybe these options could still be available during boot up under some 'advanced options' menu.

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snostorm wrote on the 2 Nov 09 at 23:20
This is a very good idea! We NEED something like this.

Darwin Survivor wrote on the 3 Nov 09 at 02:56
Awesome, we also need a good one for gnome.

Lucifer wrote on the 3 Nov 09 at 13:31
This would be very helpfull for novice users and even for experimented users.

christophski wrote on the 3 Nov 09 at 17:29
We NEED this! I've been using linux for 3 years now, but i'm stumped by grub2. No matter how many guides I follow, it just won't work properly!

Pyronick wrote on the 3 Nov 09 at 18:09
This will certainly make it less difficult for people to order their dualboot system.
The thing that always held me back to use dualboot (and therefor any other OS than Windows) was the complication of GRUB management.

Terrycymru wrote on the 4 Nov 09 at 11:02
Excellent idea - an essential tool for Ubuntu.

Ant59 wrote on the 4 Nov 09 at 17:26
Brilliant idea!!! We need this!

kornelix wrote on the 9 Nov 09 at 09:13
Grub also needs to be independent of the last OS installed, so that the boot menu can be restored and edited even after adding Windows or another Linux distro that has replaced grub and discarded the previous boot menu. Grub should be bootable from a CD and provide menu restoring and editing features.

resthavener wrote on the 9 Nov 09 at 10:13
Gets my vote.

Following a disastrous upgrade to 8.10 which trashed the whole system, now I try to have dual boot setup(currently 904, 910 etc). Took a long time, for nongeek like me, to get this working again with grub2 and now an upgrade has just reset things without asking

GnomeGrubGui especially if on bootable CD with gparted would be great (thanks kornelix)

Shady3D wrote on the 12 Nov 09 at 06:49
this should be for Ubuntu too


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