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A while ago, i reinstalled 12.04 on my computer and a few day later when My system restarts after updating itself, the grub is no longer purple. It is just black and I didn't change anything that could do that. my system works fine and there is no problems with anything. I just don't like looking at a black grub while waiting in the booting process. Can you change the grub back to being purple or choose a different color?

Michael Scott
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In terminal type

sudo gedit /lib/plymouth/themes/default.grub

  • for Saucy:

    sudo gedit /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo.grub

  • for Bionic (18.04)

    sudo gedit /usr/share/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-gnome-logo/ubuntu-gnome-logo.grub

And you can change the grub background colour by changing the values of the 3 in numbers in the text document.

Black is this 

if background_color 0,0,0 ; then
   clear
fi

and purple is this

if background_color 44,0,30 ; then
    clear
fi

Once you have finished editing that file save it and run

sudo update-grub

Refrences here and here.

abu_bua
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Gav
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Spent an hour trying to figure this out on Ubuntu 16...no posted solutions worked but good news I figured out how to do this, it easy!

in terminal;

sudo gedit /boot/grub/grub.cfg

search for "background" and change

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
set menu_color_normal=white/black
set menu_color_highlight=black/light-gray
if background_color 45,51,53; then
clear
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###

to

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
set menu_color_normal=white/black
set menu_color_highlight=black/light-gray
#if background_color 45,51,53; then
# clear
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###

*you need to comment out if background... and clear.

save. reboot!

This makes grub look far nicer when used to dual boot a Windows 10.

guntbert
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