Yesterday I did a post on how to install grub 2 on Jaunty Jackalope machine. And I started getting comments that it was as ugly as it’s predecessor. And I could not agree more on that. Following which I started looking for way to pimp up grub 2 to look a little more eye candy. Let’s see how to get splash (background) image for your grub. 1. First...
Read MoreI was wondering when will Ubuntu have a stylish GRUB. To my surprise I read that the next release of Ubuntu 9.10 i.e Karmic Kaola will ship with Grub 2. I was excited and wanted to try it on my machine. Following is what I did to install Grub 2 on Jaunty. A word of Caution: When you try to install it on Jaunty you’ll not be able to login to your machine untill...
Read MoreI had to re-install Windows on my partition and in the process it was obvious that I was going to lose my Grub. However, I knew I could very easily get it back. You can lose grub for various reasons and the most common being installing windows, which unfortunately doesn’t respect your settings and erases your grub. However, there’s nothing to panic in...
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