Edit GRUB menu?

[tanstaafl72555]

I have looked at the forum and looked online. The issue may be that I am just too stupid to recognize that the issue is so simple that no one has bothered to post on it. Since there is so much I don't know, this is likely the issue, so I will thank you for your patience.

I had a machine running Windoze 11. Not a preference, just that at present, my broker (Schwab) has many features that do not work within linux. I wanted a dual boot machine. I ran into the problem of only 4 active partitions possible (machine is older). I went in and deleted the windows recovery partition, which left me with 2 active MS partitions. I then did a swap partition and then one big partition where I put MX21.

So good so far. Booted, and got the MX21 grub boot screen with the various choices. This is also good. HOWEVER, the menu item to select boot into Win 11 is actually "Windows recovery mode" or something similar. I can boot into windows there, but I am a little anal about this kind of stuff and would prefer to simply have "windows" as the menu selection.

Where can I edit this grub menu? Thanks again for your patience here. I would appreciate you being detailed on how to do this, as I often get confused if directions are not step by step.

Thank you again.

[tanstaafl72555]

HA! forget it. I see that the customize grub app is in the software resources. This was a waste of bandwidth and I am sorry not to have checked more thoroughly before posting.

[Huckleberry Finn]

If you'll be careful (not to touch other things) you can directly edit the grub.cfg file in /boot/grub/ .

Yes, there is such a software but sometimes it causes more trouble.


You can first take a backup (just in case):

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sudo cp /boot/grub/grub.cfg /boot/grub/grub.cfg.old

Then:

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sudo nano /boot/grub/grub.cfg

(though this simple workaround will last till the first update-grub )

[tanstaafl72555]

You guys are amazing! So helpful!

Thank you.

JEG