How do I access advanced options in grub?

How do I access advanced options in grub?

2 Answers

1. Immediately after the BIOS/UEFI splash screen during boot, with BIOS, quickly press and hold the Shift key, which will bring up the GNU GRUB menu.
2. From the GRUB screen select Advanced options for Ubuntu and press Enter .

How can I make grub menu look better?

Make your Grub boot menu pretty

1. Normal procedure.
2. 1.1. Linux Mint only: remove the Mint theme package for the Grub menu.
3. 1.2. Provide a fitting image.
4. 1.3. Put the picture in the right place.
5. 1.4. Tell Grub to start using it.
6. 1.5. Option: better readable text colour in the Grub menu.
7. 1.6. Option: bigger text in the menu.
8. 1.7.

How to access advanced options in Grub?

If that doesn’t work try the answers to I can’t get the GRUB menu to show up during boot. From the GRUB screen select Advanced options for Ubuntu and press Enter. A new purple screen will appear showing a list of kernels, which includes options of booting the kernels normally or in recovery mode.

How can I change the configuration of Grub?

All of this could be done by changing the Grub configuration files located at /etc/default/grub and /boot/grub2 in the command line. But that would be complicated for many Linux users. Instead, you can use a GUI tool like Grub Customizer and easily change the Grub configuration.

How do I get to the GRUB menu?

With UEFI press (perhaps several times) the Esc key to get to the GRUB menu. Sometimes the manufacturer’s splash screen is a part of the Windows bootloader, so when you power up the machine it goes straight to the GRUB screen, and then pressing Shift is unnecessary.

How to change the boot order in Grub?

The most common use of Grub Customizer is to change the boot order. If you have Linux and Windows in dual boot or if you have multiple Linux distributions installed, you may want to change the default OS. All you have to do is to select the boot entry and move it up the order, and then click the save button.