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Customize your grub loader by just editing a file

You can find a file called menu.lst in the path /boot/grub. By editing this file you can customize your Grub loader easily.

First we can set the time out amount of the grub. Go to Section ## timeout sec and set timeout value to an amount of seconds as you like.

Then you can Customize the view by changing the colors. It is under # Pretty colors.

Then comes the most important thing of the Grub menu list. Find out the kernel list in the File. Normally it is in the bottom. Sample section for one kernel is given below.

title        Linux Mint 7 Gloria, kernel 2.6.28-16-generic
root       faaab6f9-539b-4f1a-82fc-b5a18887d28d
kernel    /vmlinuz-2.6.28-16-generic root=UUID=6a2a464d-bf70-4b4a-8c8e-8dad3ccafe2c ro quiet splash
initrd      /initrd.img-2.6.28-16-generic
quiet

You can always change the title as you wish. root is the UUID of the boot partition. If u don't have a separate boot partition then it is same as the partition containing Linux kernel. Then the generalize form is given below.

title        <Title of the kernel / os>
root      <UUID of the boot partition>
kernel    /vmlinuz-2.6.28-16-generic root=UUID= ro quiet splash
initrd      /initrd.img-2.6.28-16-generic
quiet

Other details are about the Kernel versions. So don't try to edit them until its really needed and u exactly know what is doing.

After finish the editing reboot and see what happened.

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