Share your 40/41_Custom Grub Scripts

Horizon_Brave · 2016-05-09 02:06:43

Hey everyone,

So I figure we can have a thread based on our own customized grub bootloader options. I've noticed that grub2 allows for a very wide and broad selection of customization options that really let you fine tune the boot process, or at least provide different visuals for the boot menu. Anyone wish to share their /etc/default/grub file, and perhaps a screen shot of your grub boot menu? Or at least describe how / what you've done to customize and change yours around to better fit your needs.

My own grub conf is pretty stock so far, but I'll be doing some research tomorrow to see what I can configure and change. The only thing I've done so far is add a wallpaper with:

GRUB_BACKGROUND="/home/kingghidorah/Downloads/K-G.jpg"

but I think I"m going to add an option for memtest, and change some of the timers around. Apparently changing the font color shouldn't be too hard either, so I may do that tomorrow as well.

Anyone else want to bite?

Last edited by Horizon_Brave (2016-05-16 19:55:01)

Head_on_a_Stick · 2016-05-09 06:33:19

Well, this is my /boot/grub/grub.cfg:
https://github.com/Head-on-a-Stick/conf … cfg.alpine

empty@alpine ~ % cat /etc/default/grub
cat: /etc/default/grub: No such file or directory
1 empty@alpine ~ %                                                                     :(

What is this strange file of which you speak?
8o

Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2016-05-09 06:34:48)

Horizon_Brave · 2016-05-09 17:40:08

ehh not sure if you're being serious lol.

kingghidorah@kingghidorah:/etc/default$ ls -l /etc/default | grep grub
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1362 May  8 21:55 grub

This is the file we update our grub.conf's with correct? Since our /boot/grub/grub.cfg has:

# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by grub-mkconfig using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub

Head_on_a_Stick · 2016-05-09 20:09:47

Horizon_Brave wrote:

ehh not sure if you're being serious lol.

Of course I'm being serious: `grub-mkconfig` (called by `update-grub` in Debian) doesn't work with Alpine Linux (my main OS) so I can't use that command and hence I have no use for /etc/default/grub

Horizon_Brave wrote:

kingghidorah@kingghidorah:/etc/default$ ls -l /etc/default | grep grub
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1362 May  8 21:55 grub
This is the file we update our grub.conf's with correct?

/etc/default/grub is the configuration file for the GRUB configuration file

Don't you just love needless abstractions?

Horizon_Brave wrote:

/boot/grub/grub.cfg has:

# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by grub-mkconfig using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub

Are you going to let a stinkin' text file tell you what to do?
8o

As I said, I don't use `grub-mkconfig` so that message doesn't apply.

Also, as you can see from my github page, my grub.cfg has no such warning

Horizon_Brave · 2016-05-09 21:03:26

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

Alpine Linux (my main OS)

You're such a daredevil.

But okay, that makes sense.

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Share your 40/41_Custom Grub Scripts

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