from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub. It is automatically generated by grub-mkconfig using templates. My computer boots into every OS in the list. Grub 2 Guide thread can also theme GRUB2 but I'll not get into that in this post. This is taken from Ubuntu 10.10 and despite the do not edit warning, I edited it with sudo gedit /boot/grub/cfg. I can't take a GRUB screenshot (I don't have Karmic installed in VirtualBox, but I use it on my main PC for some time now) so the image in the beginning of the post is from MacUntu user NOTICE: If you do not edit the GRUB files correctly, your system will stop booting so be careful, make backups, etc! Note: the first color is the foreground and the second color is the background.Ĭolors we can choose from include, black (or transparent), dark-gray, light-gray, white, brown, yellow, red, light-red, blue, light-blue, green, light-green, cyan, light-cyan, magenta, light-magenta. If you try to set any color here, that color will hide most of your background, (splash image). In GRUB2, 'black' really means transparent. If you're displaying a splash image (background), you will probably want to leave 'black' for your second normal color. You may change the colors you see here highlighted in yellow. You can easily restore GRUB2 from a Ubuntu live CD or USB drive. Due to the way GRUB Legacy (grub-0.97) and GRUB2 were slotted in Gentoo, both versions of GRUB may be installed on the same system at the same time however, only one version at a time may be installed in the Master Boot Record (MBR) of a hard drive.
If GRUB2 breaksfor example, if you install Windows after installing Ubuntu, or overwrite your MBRyou won’t be able to boot into Ubuntu. If background_image (hd0,2)/usr/share/images/grub/Windbuchencom.tga then Ubuntu and many other Linux distributions use the GRUB2 boot loader. Scroll down (it should be around lines 33 to 43) and find this section of the file: To modify the grub menu font colors, you need to edit the same file you edited to set your GRUB2 menu background: