How to change settings for the bootloader and splash screen in Ubuntu

StartUp Manager, or SUM, is a gui tool for changing settings in Grub, Grub2 and Usplash.SUM should work with recent versions of Debian and Debian-based distributions such as Ubuntu.

StartUp Manager Features

Change

Grub timeout

Default boot title

Number of kernels in bootloader menu

Enable/disable boot option for memtest86

Enable/disable boot option for “rescue mode”

If the default boot option should be automatically updated

Bootup resolution and color depth

Grub menu colors

Grub menu resolution(Grub2 only)

If Splashy should be loaded from initramfs

Create

Rescue floppy

Change visibility of

Grub menu

Grub menu colors

Grub menu background image

Splash screen and boot text

Password protect

Grub menu from editing

“Alternate” boot options

Old boot options

Themes

Install/change/remove Grub backgrounds

Install/change/remove Usplash themes

Install/change/remove Splashy themes

Preview Splashy themes

Install StartUp Manager in Ubuntu

sudo aptitude install startupmanager

This will complete the installation

Using StartUp Manager

If you want to open StartUp Manager go to System—>Administration—>Startup-Manager

This will prompt for root password enter and click ok

Startup-manager is loading



Once it open you should see similar to the following screen here you can change boot options screen



If you want to change appearance change on this screen



Security screen



Advanced screen