Originally Posted by
oldfred
I believe it is with 14.04 and the newer grub. If installing in BIOS mode it says i386 and if UEFI it says
Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
I also noticed that the mod files in grub are in a different directly.
My BIOS install:
/boot/grub/i386-pc
But UEFI systems have a different path not using i386-pc.
It showed as an error with mod files not found as grub version difference.
I'm in 14.10 right now and I notice that I do indeed have this /boot/grub/i386-pc and I don't have windows 8 so no UEFI.
It just sort of threw me off because I had never seen that before but a few times recently while I have a 64 bit system and thought something was wrong.
Originally Posted by
philinux
Glad you got that sorted so simply
It would have been sooner if I hadn't been asleep at the wheel. Luckily Oldfred pointed out my mistake.
Originally Posted by
ibjsb4
Just glad I asked; who know what kind of heart break I would of had with my idea
Take a gander at the green link in my signature and you could have a simple custom grub screen with any picture you want (sized at your default resolution) with custom colored fonts.
It will display whatever you want it to display for each OS as whatever you put between the quotes is what appears at boot time.
My grub screen on Mint 17 (Mint has an added file 06_mint_theme that sets the colors of the box and the the menu entries in the box),
Then the bottom and top have another color:
My grub screen on Ubuntu 14.04 which has just 2 colors: normal and highlight, but still overwhelmingly beautiful 
:
It's not near as complicated as it looks. When Ranch hand first showed me that I was like "I don't think I can do that". But after a while I seen it's not really that hard.
The more I looked at it the simpler it got. I now have 6 OSs on this box and can customize a new one with my eyes closed practically.
Copying the custom /etc/grub.d/06_custom file from another OS makes it even simpler for me.
There are only about 4 files involved and not much changes to make except in /etc/grub.d/06_custom
Here is mine from Utopic 14.10:
PHP Code:
#!/bin/sh
echo 1>&2 "Adding Precise Pangolin 12.04 LTS, Trusty Tahr 14.04 LTS, Utopic Unicorn 14.10 LTS (Devel Branch), Mint 13 Maya LTS, Mint 17 Qiana LTS and Windows 7"
exec tail -n +4 $0
# This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the
# menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to change
# the 'exec tail' line above.
menuentry "Precise Pangolin 12.04 LTS" {
set root=(hd0,2)
linux /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2 ro quiet splash
initrd /initrd.img
}
menuentry "Precise Pangolin 12.04 LTS (Recovery Mode)" {
set root=(hd0,2)
linux /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2 ro single
initrd /initrd.img
}
menuentry "Trusty Tahr 14.04 LTS" {
set root=(hd0,6)
linux /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda6 ro quiet splash
initrd /initrd.img
}
menuentry "Trusty Tahr 14.04 LTS (Recovery Mode)" {
set root=(hd0,6)
linux /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda6 ro recovery nomodeset
initrd /initrd.img
}
menuentry "Utopic Unicorn 14.10 (Devel Branch)" {
set root=(hd0,5)
linux /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda5 ro quiet splash
initrd /initrd.img
}
menuentry "Utopic Unicorn 14.10 systemd (Devel Branch)" {
set root=(hd0,5)
linux /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda5 ro quiet splash init=/lib/systemd/systemd
initrd /initrd.img
}
menuentry "Utopic Unicorn 14.10 (Devel Branch) (Recovery Mode)" {
set root=(hd0,5)
linux /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda5 ro recovery nomodeset
initrd /initrd.img
}
menuentry "Mint 13 Maya LTS" {
set root=(hd0,7)
linux /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda7 ro quiet splash
initrd /initrd.img
}
menuentry "Mint 13 Maya LTS (Recovery Mode)" {
set root=(hd0,7)
linux /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda7 ro recovery nomodeset
initrd /initrd.img
}
menuentry "Mint 17 Qiana LTS" {
set root=(hd0,8)
linux /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda8 ro quiet splash
initrd /initrd.img
}
menuentry "Mint 17 Qiana LTS (Recovery Mode)" {
set root=(hd0,8)
linux /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda8 ro recovery nomodeset
initrd /initrd.img
}
menuentry "Windows 7" {
insmod ntfs
set root='(hd0,1)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 1CFC7A8DFC7A60C6
chainloader +1
}
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