Customise Ubuntu with GRUB | Linux Today

Customise Ubuntu with GRUB

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 14, 2011

“GRUB has been with us for a while, replacing LILO (Linux
Loader) before it, and adequately performs its task of allowing you
to boot multiple operating systems (including Windows) and even
multiple kernels within operating systems (at least with respect to
Linux) without too much hassle.

“But it had its limitations. It wasn’t particularly pretty, it
was hard to make custom menus, and most importantly didn’t natively
recognise drive UUIDs (universally unique identifier), so it was
dependent on the system’s BIOS to correctly identify drives. The
latter is a useful feature: as every drive has its own UUID, and
you can add or remove drives from a system, or even take them to
another computer, and you will always be able to boot the correct
drive regardless of how the BIOS identifies them.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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