grub prompt

Kemaren, partisi /dev/hda5 yang mengandung Scientific Linux di laptop lama Acer Travelmate 2423 saya hapus, karena pengen 'cut and paste' iOS. Karena cut and paste belum selesai sementara partisi sudah bersih (termasuk menu.lst), maka laptopnya hanya menampilkan grub prompt.

grub>

Pagi ini, saya nyontek loadernya grub menu.lst di desktop kantor karena sama2 Debian Lenny, cuman beda partisi doang.
Berikut urut2an perintah yang ditulis di grub prompt sampai komputer booting ke Debian di partisi /dev/hda6

grub> root (hd0,5)
grub> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686 root=/dev/hda6 ro quiet
grub> initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-686
grub> boot

Setelah masuk di Debian, tinggal install ulang grub:

$ grub-install /dev/hda

Dibawah adalah referensi panjang lebar hasil googling:

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4622

Grub splash

There are images to pick up when install grub-splashimages. Or better still, add your own image inide the system.

There's GUI to manage grub namely Startup Manager (SUM) for Ubuntu but is not available in Debian etch.
I found the tutorial at debianadmin.org. Here's some quote:

If you want to Configure grub and usplash using Simple GUI Interface here is the tool called Startup Manager.This is a simple pyton script.

Startup Manager Features

You can Change grub timeout, default boot title, visibility of grub menu and usplash text,bootup resolution and color

depth,grub menu colors and background,usplash theme.

Password protect grub menu from editing

Install new grub backgrounds(either from a png, or a correctly sized and colored .xpm or xpm.gz)

Install new usplash themes(from a correctly made .so file)

Preparing your system

First thing you need to install imagemagick

sudo apt-get install imagemagick