If you want to Configure grub and usplash using Simple GUI Interface here is the tool called Startup Manager.This is a simple pyton script.
Startup Manager Features
You can Change grub timeout, default boot title, visibility of grub menu and usplash text,bootup resolution and color
depth,grub menu colors and background,usplash theme.
Password protect grub menu from editing
Install new grub backgrounds(either from a png, or a correctly sized and colored .xpm or xpm.gz)
Install new usplash themes(from a correctly made .so file)
Preparing your system
First thing you need to install imagemagick
sudo apt-get install imagemagick
Install Startup Manager (SUM)
You can download this from here once you downloaded the file you should be having SUM.tar.gz file
Now you need to extract this file using the following command
sudo tar xzvf SUM.tar.gz
Now you have a directory called SUM
cd SUM
and run the following command
./install.sh
This will complete the installation
Note:- install.sh Should NOT Run as ROOT
Once you finish the installation you can go to System—>Administration—>Start-UP Manager
This will open the following screen in this screen you can select boot options like kernel version you want to use timeout, resolutions,colours
If you select apperance tab grub menu settings and usplash settings
If you select security tab Boot loader security settings
Seems cool. Can this (or another) tool edit or remove entries from the list? In GRUB it was pretty straightforward just editing the menu.lst file, but GRUB2 seems more complicated. Consider me lazy and not wanting to dig through multiple files 😛