This will make Icaros' default boot option the first one in the list. Whatever will be the following number, set it to 0: Now open it with your favourite text editor and look for this line: Copy it to another location, to keep a safe backup somewhere. On Icaros Desktop, this file is placed into the SYS:Arch/PC/Grub drawer. But how can you reach the same result on your already-installed Icaros environment as well? It's quite easy.ġ) First of all, whatever GRUB-fired OS you're running, you must have a grub.cfg file hidden somewhere in your boot partition. In a nutshell, those options you'll normally not run unless you got some weird behavior by standard Icaros setup. By the way, choosing the latter option ("Advanced etc etc") will give user access to other boot options, the classic ones with 1024x768, VGA and other resolutions, with or without TLSF and floppy support.
GRUB BOOT MENU WINDOWS
As you may see from the screenshot, next boot menu will show only two lines:Įventually, people installing Icaros onto a blank partition after a Windows installation, will also see a option to boot the system into Windows as well. LiveUpdater, unluckily, isn't smart enough to do that by itself ( which is obviously a poor exscuse: please read it as "I am not able to automate the process, forgive me!").
GRUB BOOT MENU INSTALL
Unluckily, only whoever will install v2.0.4 from scratch (Live! or Light versions) will see that, while users of current editions will need to manually make some modifications to a single text file to reach the same results. So I decided to write a little tutorial about a nice customization I'm adding to the distribution.
GRUB BOOT MENU UPDATE
Works on Icaros 2.0.4 are going on, even if I recently forgot to add any status update on this page. To configure GRUB so the menu is always displayed, even after a normal startup, see. The GNU GRUB menu will continue to be displayed automatically on each boot until a normal startup of Ubuntu completes. NOTE 2: If you reboot, there is no need to hold the Shift key in step 3. NOTE 1: If you have Ubuntu Quantal (12.10) or earlier, omit step 4 (the recovery mode menu items are displayed on the top-level menu). I then used the one-time boot menu to force it to go the the UEFI entry that points to the. (This must be done following step 8 so that /etc/mtab is writable.) Alternatively, you could try selecting " Enable networking" in step 7, though this has been found to cause the system to hang (see ). When I rebooted it waited a second or so and then went to Windows. If you have /home, /boot, /tmp, or any other mount point on a separate partition, you can mount them with the command mount -all To mount it read/write, enter the command mount -o remount,rw / Press Return with this option highlighted. One of the options (you may need to scroll down to the bottom of the list) will be " Drop to root shell prompt". Press Return and your machine will begin the boot process.Īfter a few moments, your workstation should display a menu with a number of options.Select the line ending with " (recovery mode)", probably the second line, something like: Ubuntu GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.8.0-26-generic (recovery mode) Select the line which starts with " Advanced options". (If you see the Ubuntu logo, you've missed the point where you can enter the GRUB menu.) With UEFI press (perhaps several times) the Escape key to get grub menu. With BIOS, quickly press and hold the Shift key, which will bring up the GNU GRUB menu.(If you see the Ubuntu logo, youve missed the point where you can enter. (During this time you will probably see a logo of your computer manufacturer.) Note: UEFI fast boot may be too fast to give time to press any key. With BIOS, quickly press and hold the Shift key, which will bring up the GNU GRUB menu. Wait until the UEFI/BIOS has finished loading, or has almost finished.If booting into recovery mode does not work you can still use your installation CD (if it is a live cd) as described in LivecdRecovery. You are then logged in as root (the superuser) and can repair your system using command line tools. Although Linux-based, it fully supports the NTFS file system. How to boot into Windows installed on a separate SATA drive.
GRUB BOOT MENU HOW TO
How to identify the name of the boot drive (hd0, hd1, hd2, etc) How to add Windows entry into GRUB menu. This mode just loads some basic services and drops you into command line mode. How to restore GRUB menu after Windows installation. The theme is configured through a plain text file that specifies the layout of the various GUI components (including the boot menu, timeout progress bar, and text messages) as well as the appearance using colors, fonts, and images. If your system fails to boot for whatever reason, it may be useful to boot it into recovery mode. The GRUB graphical menu supports themes that can customize the layout and appearance of the GRUB boot menu.