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Change your boot splash or menu appearance in ubuntu or kubuntu with startupmanager. Set password against kernel parameters for example: init=/bin/bash, what boot up your system to root prompt.

Installation:

sudo apt-get install startupmanager

After installation process has finished execute startupmanager:

sudo startupmanager

After it you can set any splash for boot, background image for GRUB, or you can set password protection for GRUB, or change resolution, color detph of boot process, etc...

Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) released on the 18th of October 2007. I've upgraded from Ubuntu 7.04 to 7.10.

How to upgrade your Ubuntu Linux?

Before you start

• You can only directly upgrade to Ubuntu 7.10 ("Gutsy Gibbon") from Ubuntu 7.04 ("Feisty Fawn") (see UpgradeNotes).
• Be sure that you have all updates applied to Ubuntu 7.04 before you upgrade (see below).
• Before upgrading it is recommended that you read the release notes for Ubuntu 7.10, which document caveats and workarounds for known issues in this version.

Network upgrade for Ubuntu desktops (Gnome)

You can easily upgrade over the network with the following procedure on Gnome: