Comment 4 for bug 918041

I fully support the points made and the solutions proposed by Denis (top post), UbuntuFlo (#2) and Henry3 (#3). As things stand, the Grub2 menu is unclear, confusing and loaded with irrelevant old kernels languishing on the hard drive.

Apart from presenting only relevant items and meaningful names, the Grub start-up menu could also usefully be made to offer the opportunity to:

(1) select the default choice
(2) reorder the menu items
(3) change the value for the time-out counter (seconds)

An installed system at the moment lacks an easy way of setting these basic choices without delving into the deep inner workings of Grub2.