Re: How to have a custom Grub2 menu that is maintenance free
Yeah, it has to be the terminal size. I have a 28' monitor and had it full screen at the time.
Let me see what I can do.
OK that was it. Check this out:
Code:
cavsfan@cavsfan-desktop:~$ sudo blkid -c /dev/null -o list
[sudo] password for cavsfan:
device fs_type label mount point UUID
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/dev/sda1 ntfs C: (not mounted) 1CFC7A8DFC7A60C6
/dev/sda2 ext4 Lucid / a162dc8a-e4df-4b79-b4c3-524761ff7ae1
/dev/sda3 swap <swap> 2a80f59e-e7c3-418e-aab2-ab5d19255a2f
/dev/sda5 ext4 Precise (not mounted) 3b8b1954-24e6-4a5e-9074-70a1a94ed4be
/dev/sda6 swap (not mounted) 82c51b29-023f-4964-99b6-67b45a49527f
/dev/sda7 ext4 Quantal (not mounted) b5fc902c-0bf0-45b3-95a1-29f3c46dfe6a
/dev/sda8 swap (not mounted) 69ac3efc-8a8a-4056-89e0-59bb81c2f468
/dev/sda9 ext4 Lucid Generic (not mounted) 109c11d0-71e3-41a4-87da-9e81535499a5
/dev/sda10 swap (not mounted) 24aa8c8b-53dc-4ecc-852b-ff2c25c8b342
/dev/sda11 ext4 Precise-Generic (not mounted) 50104efb-d918-45a9-985e-a70c60e87ac0
/dev/sda12 swap (not mounted) 139390a6-2fe1-4ff2-b650-88ae3b0586c1
/dev/sda13 ext4 Quantal-Generic (not mounted) 580e8c62-78ce-44a2-93e3-ccebd37c3acc
/dev/sda14 swap (not mounted) ec3048b8-c644-435a-93bb-08bb4975d0db
/dev/sdb1 ntfs Fantom /media/Fantom 78B8D1A1B8D15DE6
cavsfan@cavsfan-desktop:~$
We'll have to keep the terminal size in mind I guess. It looks good now.
Thanks! :)
Re: How to have a custom Grub2 menu that is maintenance free
Quote:
I have a 28' monitor
I thought I had a good sized monitor as my vision is not that great, but a 28 foot (28' ) monitor. :P
Re: How to have a custom Grub2 menu that is maintenance free
Quote:
Originally Posted by
oldfred
I thought I had a good sized monitor as my vision is not that great, but a 28 foot (28' ) monitor. :P
HA! Typo - 28 inch monitor! I guess not even this monitor helps my vision! :D
EDIT: I meant to say that yes I was using Lucid.
Re: How to have a custom Grub2 menu that is maintenance free
I added Raring Ringtail 13.04 as the 8th system on my Grub2 menu.
http://ompldr.org/tZ3BpcQ
It uses Grub version 2.00 just like Quantal Quetzal.
The normal login to Raring gives a quick shell logon screen but, quickly goes into Raring.
The Recovery option takes you to a shell login prompt.
Code:
grep -e "menuentry " -e "submenu" /boot/grub/grub.cfg | sed 's/^[ \t]*//' | cut -d "'" -f1,2 | nl --starting-line-number=0
Returns:
Code:
0 menuentry "Lycid Lynx 10.04" {
1 menuentry "Lycid Lynx 10.04 (Recovery Mode)" {
2 menuentry "Lycid Lynx Generic 10.04" {
3 menuentry "Lycid Lynx Generic 10.04 (Recovery Mode)" {
4 menuentry "Precise Pangolin 12.04" {
5 menuentry "Precise Pangolin 12.04 (Recovery Mode)" {
6 menuentry "Precise Pangolin Generic 12.04" {
7 menuentry "Precise Pangolin Generic 12.04 (Recovery Mode)" {
8 menuentry "Quantal Quetzal 12.10" {
9 menuentry "Quantal Quetzal 12.10 (Recovery Mode)" {
10 menuentry "Quantal Quetzal Generic 12.10" {
11 menuentry "Quantal Quetzal Generic 12.10 (Recovery Mode)" {
12 menuentry "Raring Ringtail 13.04" {
13 menuentry "Raring Ringtail 13.04 (Recovery Mode)" {
14 menuentry "Windows 7" {
It always defaults to 14 Windows 7 so in case of a reboot my wife is good to go with Windows 7.
Re: How to have a custom Grub2 menu that is maintenance free
BTW, when I installed Raring Ringtail 13.04, it pulled in 6 other swapfiles into /etc/fstab.
So, it had the partition my ext4 was on and 7 swapfiles; the right one and the 6 from the other Ubuntus on my system.
This is why I mentioned this in section 1.7 of the wiki.
Re: How to have a custom Grub2 menu that is maintenance free
I changed my Grub2 picture and I also noticed that in the Grub2 documentation that drs305 had written that black
can be used as a color without it making the font transparent.
So, black/black is acceptable but, only if you have a background image. If you have no image, the font will be transparent or invisible.
The wiki has been updated to reflect the above.
These are not the most ideal colors, but it shows that black can be used when an image is present.
This is with color_normal=black/black
and color_highlight=light-green/black.
http://ompldr.org/tZ3B6eA
Re: How to have a custom Grub2 menu that is maintenance free
OK, this is the last one for a while. I am not very good at matching backgrounds to colors but, I believe this one looks pretty good. :)
http://ompldr.org/tZ3FkdA
The font colors are color_normal=cyan/black
and color_highlight=light-cyan/black
Re: How to have a custom Grub2 menu that is maintenance free
Added a link at the bottom of the wiki to link back to this thread to post questions, etc.
Re: How to have a custom Grub2 menu that is maintenance free
Got rid of the extra systems and cleaned it up a bit but, I still like this background.
This is on Grub 2.00 on Raring Ringtail 13.04.
I just have the 5 OS's on it now.
http://ompldr.org/taDI4aA
Re: How to have a custom Grub2 menu that is maintenance free
I learned from cariboo907 that you can have one single swapfile for all of your Ubuntus.
So, I simplified my partitions and gained some room at the same time.
Code:
cavsfan@cavsfan-MS-7529:~$ sudo blkid
[sudo] password for cavsfan:
/dev/sda1: LABEL="C:" UUID="1CFC7A8DFC7A60C6" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda2: LABEL="Lucid" UUID="a162dc8a-e4df-4b79-b4c3-524761ff7ae1" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda3: UUID="2a80f59e-e7c3-418e-aab2-ab5d19255a2f" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sda5: LABEL="Precise" UUID="3b8b1954-24e6-4a5e-9074-70a1a94ed4be" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda6: LABEL="Quantal" UUID="b5fc902c-0bf0-45b3-95a1-29f3c46dfe6a" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda7: LABEL="Raring" UUID="a6b7ac97-488f-4e87-b6af-247fcbf6df77" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="Fantom" UUID="78B8D1A1B8D15DE6" TYPE="ntfs"
I had to edit each /etc/stab file and get the swap file to point to sda3 and the UUID above and everything is good.
Just don't make the same mistake I made by not moving my grub to my main Ubuntu on sda2 which was untouched.
I had grub installed on Raring and after deleting swapfiles, resizing/moving partitions, upon reboot I was looking at grub recovery :(
I recovered with my Lucid live CD pretty easily but, it would have been easier if I had thought before hand. :p
http://ompldr.org/taDI4aA
