obarthelemy
December 4th, 2010, 10:10 PM
Hi.
I'm trying to switch to Linux (total Linux noob here, sorry, bear with me ?). I have it installed and running multi-booting on my Win7 HP Mini 100 Netbook; things are mostly fine, I'm trying to both tweak the config and add some creature comforts right now.
My first issue is the GRUB2 boot menu. Though it works, it has 2 issues:
1- It lists one OS per partition, and since I have 2 OSes (Win7 + Ubuntu) plus 1 Win7 recovery partition, and 6 partitions total, this is way too much and confusing. How do I get rid of the extraneous entries ? I'm pretty sure I know which those are; but the startupmanager won't let me change much, and the /etc/default/grub file loudly states DO NOT EDIT, and looks complicated (compared to the older menu.lst which I've looked at before). How can I at least comment out useless/redundant grub boot menu choices ?
2- the grub boot menu is ugly and all jumbled. Is there any way, assuming I can trim it down to Win7, Ubuntu, and then Win7 recovery and Ubuntu recovery, that I can put the entries in that order, with a separation (a few blank lines and a solid line ?) between the 2 main choices, and the 2 recovery ones ? I'll add a nicer background image too, but I seem to have instructions for that.
I've read the grub2 doc, installed startupmanager... neither helps ?
I don't want the first impression of people (including me ^^) I'll be showing it to to be "wow, what a mess").
Thanks for any help,
Olivier
PS I know 6 partitions is a lot on a small netbook. Blame HP for needing 3 for their Windows setup, and me for being anal retentive and liking my docs NOT on my sys/apps paritions.
I'm trying to switch to Linux (total Linux noob here, sorry, bear with me ?). I have it installed and running multi-booting on my Win7 HP Mini 100 Netbook; things are mostly fine, I'm trying to both tweak the config and add some creature comforts right now.
My first issue is the GRUB2 boot menu. Though it works, it has 2 issues:
1- It lists one OS per partition, and since I have 2 OSes (Win7 + Ubuntu) plus 1 Win7 recovery partition, and 6 partitions total, this is way too much and confusing. How do I get rid of the extraneous entries ? I'm pretty sure I know which those are; but the startupmanager won't let me change much, and the /etc/default/grub file loudly states DO NOT EDIT, and looks complicated (compared to the older menu.lst which I've looked at before). How can I at least comment out useless/redundant grub boot menu choices ?
2- the grub boot menu is ugly and all jumbled. Is there any way, assuming I can trim it down to Win7, Ubuntu, and then Win7 recovery and Ubuntu recovery, that I can put the entries in that order, with a separation (a few blank lines and a solid line ?) between the 2 main choices, and the 2 recovery ones ? I'll add a nicer background image too, but I seem to have instructions for that.
I've read the grub2 doc, installed startupmanager... neither helps ?
I don't want the first impression of people (including me ^^) I'll be showing it to to be "wow, what a mess").
Thanks for any help,
Olivier
PS I know 6 partitions is a lot on a small netbook. Blame HP for needing 3 for their Windows setup, and me for being anal retentive and liking my docs NOT on my sys/apps paritions.