edit grub help

[oldfred]

If you can boot, you can skip the chroot and run this from your install. Just be sure you have Internet connection as it downloads the new grub2 (grub-pc).

chroot & grub uninstall & reinstall -drs305
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1581099

• Complete only steps 2 through 5.
• Include "sudo" at the start of each command. Example: sudo apt-get purge grub grub-pc grub-common

[ENigma885]

Grub Customizer is good gui tool to configure grub including changing the background with few clicks.
Unfortunately, it's not available using the official repositories provided by Ubuntu. So, you'll have to add its ppa to be able to install it.

1- Open a terminal window and paste

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:danielrichter2007/grub-customizer

2- Hit enter to accept adding the new ppa

3- Update the repositories' lists and install Grub Customizer

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install grub-customizer

4- Launch the program normally by searching for it using the Dash Home menu

5- The program will scan your grub entries once launched in few seconds. Then you can go to Preferences>>Appearance tab>>Background Image

Note to the original poster of the thread: It seems that you are somehow knowledgeable and prefer the command line way. Surely, we won't go into the usual debate of gui vs cli, but my post might be useful to beginners (especially that you've posted in Absolute Beginner Talk) or those who prefer a simple gui to do simple stuff.

[rburkartjo]

tks ya'll for all your advise here is how i fixed
somehow i must have deleted grub and when i re-installed i ran

sudo apt-get install grub
thats when i started having problems

so i took a chance and ran
sudo apt-get install grub2

that fixed the problem now if i edit this line in grub
GRUB_BACKGROUND="/home/ray/980735-1920x1080-1.jpg"

i can change the background image to anything i want as long as the path to the image is correct