Are you getting tired with the look of your GRUB window’s default setting? Well, your boring days is over. Sit back and relax because we’re about to give ‘life’ to your GRUB’s boring look. On this very easy tutorial, we are going to edit two configuration files and prepare one PNG image that we will use as your GRUB2 background.
Scenario: You have a dual-boot setup (Windows 7 + Ubuntu 10.04LTS). But your Windows 7 crashed and you decided to make a fresh install. After reinstalling Windows, Ubuntu is gone and boot up gets you straight to your Windows installation. And GRUB2, which supposed to manage these 2 operating systems, is nowhere to be found, or worst, the screen might only show you a “grub_rescue>” black screen of death.
Well, chill out, this is a very simple issue and I have a very simple, but effective solution for you.
Simply grab your Ubuntu 10.04LTS Live-CD and run it. Once you’re on the desktop go to Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal and then follow these simple steps.
1. First, you need to find out the UUID of the partition that should contain your boot loader. In my case it’s located in my root directory (/). To do that simply type:
$ sudo fdisk -l
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