Comments on: StartUp Manager - change settings in Grub, Grub2 and Usplash

By: hothot

hothot — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 22:33:16 +0000

Damned, in Ubuntu 10.10, startupmanager 1.9.13-5 doesn’t shown half of the tabs & settings ???

By: S

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 08:42:36 +0000

startup manager doesn’t work in 11.04

By: Prasad DVR

Prasad DVR — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 05:34:58 +0000

I am using Ubuntu 11.04 (upgraded from 10.04 LTS), my startup-manager now showing 4 options (tabs) Its only showing 2 tabs please help me to resolve my problem

By: Merel

Merel — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 10:11:58 +0000

Does anyone has no problem running (in tab Advanced)the option to create a rescue floppy ?

I noticed that it is a common bug, reported many times but could not find any report telling that it was actually possible to use the option.

Even if the “mounting floppy” problem is solved (reverting to old version udisks), this does not allow the option to run with succes. Even worse : the floppy is accessed by in an attempt to format, but the Fat format is destroyed, so even in Windows it cannot be accessed anymore.

By: Eruaran

Eruaran — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 08:02:23 +0000

Once again we see the retarded attitude of GNOME developers. The current version of startup manager has been stripped of almost ALL the features most users want to use it for. Can’t at least keep the appearance tab? After all that’s all MOST USERS want to change… But, that would be too sensible wouldn’t it…

By: Faban

Faban — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 16:08:24 +0000

Esta fue la mejor respuesta de toda la web que he estado buscando desde hace días.
GRACIAS!!!

By: bartman2589

bartman2589 — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 05:09:56 +0000

Ok, fresh install of Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid), and I’m wondering how do I get startup manager to show all of the options it shows in the above pictures, right now I’ve only got the boot options and the advanced tab and the advanced tab is missing about half of the options shown on the images above. I’m using whatever version of Grub is installed by default on Ubuntu 10.04 (Grub 2 I think). I’m especially interested in adding a background and changing the colors, as well as the option shown to limit the number of kernels in the boot menu. I would think that by now Grub 2 has been around long enough where we’d have a decent configuration editor (with a GUI) for those of us who are a little iffy with the idea of manually editing the grub.cfg file.

By: Zeke Krahlin

Zeke Krahlin — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 19:07:06 +0000

> what is the command to call/run
> in the shell text UI?

You just type the name of the script or application, then press[enter]. If the program is not in a default path location, then you must type the full path, too!

By: MaL

MaL — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 12:02:18 +0000

what is the command to call/run in the shell text UI?

By: wahidhasan

wahidhasan — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 08:32:54 +0000

Thank u so much, it is very useful. it works.

By: Pewterbot 9

Pewterbot 9 — Mon, 24 May 2010 03:57:15 +0000

To let everyone know: I resolved my startup problem. With Lucid Lynx you’re supposed to call up the startup menu by tapping any key when the first bootup screen occurs…but that doesn’t work at all for me. So I found a very useful third-party boot manager, which gave me back my dual-boot control. Very user friendly and easy to configure, I highly recommend it:

GAG, the Graphical Boot Manager
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gag/

By: Pewterbot 9

Pewterbot 9 — Sat, 22 May 2010 18:10:07 +0000

Hello, I just fresh-install upgraded from Jaunty Jackalope to Lucid Lynx, on my dual-boot netbook. Now, the startup menu does appear when I boot up, but only for a fraction of a second! Default bootup is of course, Ubuntu, but since the menu flashes by so fast, there’s no way I can access the other choices, including Windoze Expee.

So I installed Startup Manager, and set the timeout to 10 seconds. (And to “show text during boot”.) Still, the startup menu flashed by, no delay at all, not even a second! Tried setting timeout to 100 seconds, and once more, this did not help. (Examining grub.cfg shows the timeout was changed to my specs…I just viewed the file.)

I searched for bootup problems in ubuntu forums, but did not find any problem similar to mine. My situation seems to be that I simply can’t get the startup menu to delay, so I might access it.

How do I manage to correct this? TIA.

By: abiheiri

abiheiri — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:01:31 +0000

in 10.04 there is no option to password protect grub

By: Jawaid

Jawaid — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 23:39:15 +0000

Easy and useful.
I’ve Ubuntu 10.04 and Windows 7
Thanks

By: lincks

lincks — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:02:46 +0000

Brandon M. Sergent,
follow this step
7 . # Removing Entries from Grub 2
on the link
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1195275

Its pretty easy.

By: Brandon M. Sergent

Brandon M. Sergent — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 08:51:32 +0000

Too bad this app can’t actually edit the entries list.

I have duplicates that need deleting.

By: Mustdie

Mustdie — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:59:15 +0000

Seems that we just have to wait for SUM to get more GRUB2 customizing options…
or read the GRUB2 docs and try to do it manually =)

By: crjackson

crjackson — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:25:24 +0000

While I have always enjoyed SUM to customize my grub, it doesn’t really offer much for the Grub2 of karmic.

I would really like to colorize the menu and remove the memtest86+ but the options just aren’t there anymore.

Finally, I have read some information on how to modify Grub2, but I can’t figure out on my own how to just remove the memtest86+ entries. I would love to see a howto here on Ubuntu Geek that even someone like me can follow.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:32:03 +0000

Seems to not be working for grub2 on 9.04 (Jaunty? I forget all the names).

I’ve used it before with grub and this IS a fine utility for those, like me, who aren’t that great delving into the files.

Until the new SUM comes out, I’ll have to start learning to manually configure

Thanks ubuntugeek. You always have good stuff on here.

By: ed_zachary

ed_zachary — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 22:30:37 +0000

Hey, I did this for Intrepid and it works great! Thanks!