How to change settings for the bootloader and splash screen in Ubuntu
Posted by admin on June 7th, 2008 
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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
June 8th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
THANK YOU A LOT…..
June 12th, 2008 at 5:41 am
Thanks for your sharing. This site is best of Ubuntu tutorial….
Best regards,
thien pham from Viet Nam
June 12th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
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.
July 11th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
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
October 15th, 2008 at 9:45 pm
Thanks!!