1

Ubuntu 12.10 Simplifies GRUB Boot Menu

view story
linux-howto

http://www.ubuntuvibes.com – Ubuntu 12.10 features a minor but interesting change in GRUB2 Boot Menu. Menu entries now have 'Ubuntu' as the first option instead of 'Ubuntu with Linux (Kernel version)'. Everything else has been tucked into a new 'Advanced Options' entry which lists older Kernels and recovery mode options. Here is a screenshot of new boot menu: Advanced Options: For comparison, here is a screenshot of boot menu in Ubuntu 12.04: New boot menu makes sense as any first time Linux user may get confused by recovery mode option and Kernel versions. A simple 'Ubuntu' entr (HowTos)

Gnicqi's picture
Submitted by Gnicqi on 09/16/2012

Stories similar to Ubuntu 12.10 Simplifies GRUB Boot Menu

Ubuntu boot menu options 47 weeks 3 days ago

how to get the boot menu option where you can choose the recovery or the latest version of kernel? it helped me in the past to boot into a recovery mode if things went wrong!

I recently applied some updates on Ubuntu and when I restarted I booted up windows first then rebooted to Ubuntu. Now the boot menu only shows windows 7 and recovery environment options but no Ubuntu or other Linux options. What can I do to boot into Ubuntu again or get the options back?

Grub2 Advanced Options 1 year 1 week ago

I'd like to completely remove any advanced options in my boot menu. All I want to see is one option for each installed OS. Fedora 17 Windows 7 Fedora 16 Fedora 14 Ubuntu (Ultimate Edition) Arch Linux

Does anyone know if this is possible? I don't need 47 freakin' options in the menu!

Thanks for reading.

I recently inherited an iMac from a friend and decided to put Ubuntu and mint on it...I first installed Ubuntu 12.04(replacing mac os x) and of course it installed grub2 with it, after doing an 'update-grub' I got the default grub2 menu when I booted, from this I had the options to boot to Memtest, ubuntu recovery, ubuntu, and the older kernals of ubuntu.

After installing Linux Mint, I could see

What I like about Ubuntu is that the GRUB menu always allows me to pick the latest (default) or second-latest (etc.) kernel version at boot time.

In Arch Linux, I can't do that by default. The only options are normal and fallback images, and both boot the latest kernel. How can I achieve the Ubuntu-like behavior in Arch?

Having installed Ubuntu 10.04.1 by wubi from XP I cant boot to start Ubuntu. The install app let me 2 options in windows loader. 1.- Windows Xp Professional. and 2.- Ubuntu. If I acces the frist option I get access to Windows Xp correctly but if select 2.

I wish to set my installation of ubuntu server 11.10 to automatically boot into linux kernel 2.6.

The way I navigate to this option in the grub menu is by choosing the 3rd option, which says "Older Linux Versions". This then loads another menu which has the linux 2.6 kernel versions of ubuntu that I am looking for.

I have been trying to set up a dual boot ubuntu for a couple of days with no luck.

With a clean machine, installing Windows 7 and then Ubuntu 11.10, on reboot, I do not get a grub menu, instead it goes straight into Windows.

I tried installing Fedora 16 which worked as expected (Grub menu with Windows and Fedora options).

Formatting the Fedora partition and re-installing Ubuntu over it gi

I recently was mucking around with my graphics drivers on Ubuntu 12.10 (I have a Radeon HD 6950 and I was getting borderless windows and no lenses). After I rebooted, now Ubuntu will show the logo and the orange dots for a minute, then the screen will go black and everything will freeze.