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Does anyone know how to edit the grub 1.99 menu (Background color, order to list operating systems, etc.) in Ubuntu 11.04? Thanks!

Also, are there any alternatives to Grub?

I'd recommend asking on the Ubuntu Forums. Unfortunately I got banned from there for posting Photoshop tutorials for Gimp users. So most of the problems I come across I either Google, or haft to figure out myself.

GRUB has a file for custom boot menu options, this is located in: /etc/grub.d/40_custom. Once you have made changes to this file you will need to run update-grub to apply the changes.
The boot menu appearance can be changed by editing the 05_debian_theme file.

You can bring up the boot selection screen by holding the left shift key while grub is loading.

LILO, Plop and Syslinux are alternatives to GRUB.

The file 40_custom is read only. Do you know how to fix that?

You should run your text editor as root.

How would i run the text editor as a root? (i am new to ubuntu)

You can do this by opening a terminal, then running the command: sudo mousepad
This will ask for the root password, then it will start a text editor with root privileges.

Thanks, this helped!

Also, the command you showed me didn't work. I found the command "sudo gedit" that did, though.