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StartUp Manager, or SUM, is a gui tool for changing settings in Grub, Grub2 and Usplash.SUM should work with recent versions of Debian and Debian-based distributions such as Ubuntu.

StartUp Manager Features

Change

Grub timeout
Default boot title
Number of kernels in bootloader menu
Enable/disable boot option for memtest86
Enable/disable boot option for “rescue mode”
If the default boot option should be automatically updated
Bootup resolution and color depth
Grub menu colors
Grub menu resolution(Grub2 only)
If Splashy should be loaded from initramfs

Create

Rescue floppy

Change visibility of

Grub menu
Grub menu colors
Grub menu background image
Splash screen and boot text

Password protect

Grub menu from editing
“Alternate” boot options
Old boot options

Themes

Install/change/remove Grub backgrounds
Install/change/remove Usplash themes
Install/change/remove Splashy themes
Preview Splashy themes

Install StartUp Manager in Ubuntu

sudo aptitude install startupmanager

This will complete the installtion

Using StartUp Manager

If you want to open StartUp Manager go to System—>Administration—>Startup-Manager

This will prompt for root password enter and click ok

Startup-manager is loading

Once it open you should see similar to the following screen here you can change boot options screen

If you want to change appearance change on this screen

Security screen

Advanced screen

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6 Comments to “How to change settings for the bootloader and splash screen in Ubuntu”

  1. nasrullah chinnarassen says:

    THANK YOU A LOT…..

  2. thien pham says:

    Thanks for your sharing. This site is best of Ubuntu tutorial….
    Best regards,
    thien pham from Viet Nam

  3. cadwmaster says:

    thanks, only one question, who can I add more resolutions to StartUp Manager, because I have a notebook with other resolucion and the manager doesn’t show the correct resolution.

  4. NukieNuggz says:

    Hi there,

    just curious if anyone knows of a good site for bootloader themes? I’ve downloaded several themes from http://www.gnome-look.org/, but for some apparent reason, i wasn’t able to get the themes to work :(

  5. C. says:

    Thanks!!

  6. John.St says:

    Nice.

    It doesn’t actually work, but the colors are nice.

    I have 2 x 8.10 installed and the latest installed (a fix-the real thingy install, which ended up on /sda6) starts as default, no matter how I change it in StartUp Manager.

    SUM doesn’t even show my regular UB /sda8

    Setting ‘Last used’ as default doesn’t work either.

    Is SUM an 8.04 only thingy?

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