Removing or renaming entries from GRUB menu

Last update on December 28, 2008 10:13 AM by deri58
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Removing or renaming entries from GRUB menu





GRUB boot manager,may contain unnecessary boot sequence.Here's is a small tip on how removing them.


What are entries


These are the lines of commands that are being validated to start the system you have chosen. The GRUB boot process is done via the files that are contained in the /boot/grub folder. What we shall consider is the /boot/grub/menu.lst file.

Renaming/deleting entries


Logged in as root,for this: 
$su
<password_su>


To edit the menu.lst file found in /boot/grub ,type: 

vi /boot/grub/menu.lst


Opening the configuration file for GRUB( E.g on Mandriva 2009): 

timeout 10
color black/cyan yellow/cyan
default 0

title 2009.0 - Mandriva
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=2009.0_-_Mandriva root=UUID=0627a70c-b0d0-11dd-9d39-ad8b2ff3b8cb resume=UUID=097e0806-b0d0-11dd-ae8c-9dfbc9a948c0 splash=silent vga=788
initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd.img


Switch to insert mode and then change the names of entries that are located after title in each paragraph. Rename them according to your needs.To delete entries, simply delete the paragraph of the chosen entry...
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