Best way to edit my GRUB thing?

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Hello, I’m fairly new with Ubuntu 10.04 and have got it all set up to what I need from Ubuntu but there’s 1 thing I want to do. Edit my GRUB booting thing.

I’m on the first version GRUB that comes with Ubuntu 10.04 but I’ve heard there’s a GRUB2 but is harder to edit, what do you suggest?

I’ve YouTubed it and came across an application called KGRUBEditor (for GRUB that comes with Ubuntu 10.04), although I have no idea on how to install it on my Ubuntu so I was hoping you guys could help! Or is there a different better way to edit it that you would recommend over the KGRUBEditor.

Thanks, Joe.

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AFAIK Ubuntu 10.04 uses GRUB2 by default not legacy GRUB… what are you trying to achieve ?

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Mine says “GNU GRUB version 0.97” at the top like in the image below. I’d like to rename some of the options of it because it all looks messy.

http://www.ime.usp.br/~jose/mac2166/ubuntu/snapshots/grub.png

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OK, editing of legacy GRUB’s menu is done by manually editing the /boot/grub/menu.lst file.

WARNING: first make a backup of this file.
To create a backup, enter this command into a terminal:

sudo cp /boot/grub/menu.lst /boot/grub/menu.lst-backup

then if anything goes wrong, you can boot from a LiveCD and replace the file.

See here:

If you need help, post the contents of the /boot/grub/menu.lst file here, and explain what you are trying to acieve.