It's in the first post of the green link in my signature. I figured it'd be better to have it there.
Here's the direct link: Creating a Custom Maintenance Free GRUB2 Screen Community Wiki
Ranch Hand gave me all the tips and his knowledge rubbed off on me, I just put it into a How to and that evolved into a wiki. Drs305 also was a big help.
I installed Xubuntu on another partition a while back and when it did an update-grub it took 3-4 minutes to complete. Mine takes less than 2 seconds to complete.
So, if you dual boot or multi-boot I can not see any reason NOT to use this.
Also, Grub2 only sees the first 4 partitons and after that it gets everything wrong. You think you are booting into the 5th partition, etc. but you are really booting into a messed up 1st Linux partition.
You will not be able to boot into it like it looks like. I've had as many as 7-8 operating systems on this 6 year old box and with the custom menu, it worked every time without fail.
Thanks for the info. I had a hard time before and had to sign up for the Ubuntu Etherpad instance team.
I found out I had to logout and back in for it to work.
So, I'll be sure and log out and back in this time too.
Thanks again!
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