I'm leery posting this as a step-by-step howto because grub, frankly, scares me with all the changes I've been wrestling with the last few years. I'd hate to see a new user make his system unbootable.
Things like config files scattered helter-skelter, tweaks and comments edited by distros that are flat wrong (not UM BTW), deprecated things with no replacements. It's my rage topic.
That said, the way I solve a lot of issues is get grub out of graphics mode like this (remember it's not detailed step-by-step):
edit /etc/default/grub as root
Uncomment the line so GRUB_TERMINAL=console is active
run update-grub as root
Grub will now be in a TEXT mode, like a console. You don't even have to uninstall grub themes.
Hi v3xx. Isn’t that what I did? I’ve never played with GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX(_DEFAULT), though.
Hehe… you show one of my pet-peeves, too. grub-pc has been incorrectly named “grub2” by the rest of the world and started at version 1.98 as I recall (rolling eyes).
EDIT: For anyone wondering, the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX(_DEFAULT) changes from @anon42388993 allows the bootup messages to show. Nostalgic! I like!
Hi @maximuscore. A few years ago I had VBox VM trying OpenSUSE and the grub chameleon graphics took 90 seconds! 90 seconds!!! Grant it VBox doesn’t have the best graphics but that was ridiculous.
Hi @wolfman. Very nice, indeed and appears up to date.
I’ve found over the last few years how quickly so much good info becomes stale - especially for LTS users.
EDIT: Yep, same problem that plaques many such pages:
The current version of GRUB is 1.99, which was introduced with Ubuntu 11.04, Natty Narwhal and is the version installed with 12.04, Precise Pangolin LTS. The documentation on this page applies to GRUB 1.99 unless otherwise noted.
Is the best way. It really gives you your old grub back.
I think / hope that Mate team can consider a better theme or none at all.
it is really painfully slow in the current state.