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GRUB Configuration Editor

Asked by Wesley Michael

I had to reload the one of the copies of Ubuntu that I had on my laptop. This happened to be the one that also had the GRUB configuration for the machine.

Now everything installed fine and I can boot to any of the partitions that I have on the machine. What I am looking for is the configuration editor that I used to have. It made it really easy to pick which was the default to boot and hide old versions and such. But, I can't remember what it was called.

Before I just went onto the Software Center and searched on GRUB, but this time I'm not finding anything.

I am running 11.10 right now.

Thanks.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Do you by any chance have Windows installed in dual boot and want Windows as the default OS?

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delance (olivier-delance) said : 		#2

https://answers.launchpad.net/startup-manager
Simply type:
   sudo apt-get install startup-manager
to install it.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

andy@fileserver:~$ apt-cache policy startup-manager
N: Unable to locate package startup-manager
andy@fileserver:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 11.10
Release: 11.10
Codename: oneiric

Doesn't exist in Oneiric

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delance (olivier-delance) said : 		#4

sudo apt-get install startupmanager # with no dash

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Wesley Michael (wam-zoominternet) said : 		#5

I do have a partition with Windows that I want to make the default OS. I have three different partitions, one with Windows 7, one with Ubuntu 11.10 (32-bit) and the last one with Ubuntu 10.04 (64-bit). The 10.04 Ubuntu partition has about 8 different kernels to choose from, but I only use the latest one. The program that I had in the past was really nice. It allowed me to pick which kernels were available, so I could hide the old ones and make the other changes to the GRUB configurations like the default OS, timeout, etc.

I was able to load startup-manager (I got it from the software center). And it does allow you to pick the default option to boot, but something isn't right with it. I pick something and the default turns out to be something else. Looks like it is off by one. But it doesn't seem to have the option to hide older kernel versions.

It must be that the program I was using isn't available any more. That's too bad -- what ever it was called, it worked really nicely. I guess I will just have to edit the configuration files by hand.

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Best Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#6

Startup-manager is no longer actively developed.
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/startupmanager/+question/177677

All question regarding startup-manager are there.
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/startupmanager/+questions

Anyway, rather use grub-customizer.
https://launchpad.net/grub-customizer

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Wesley Michael (wam-zoominternet) said : 		#7

Thanks! That was it! The program I was using was grub-customizer. I got it installed and now I have my menu set up the way I like.

I wonder how it was that I was able to find it the last time. Well, anyway, thanks again.

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Wesley Michael (wam-zoominternet) said : 		#8

Thanks Sam_, that solved my question.

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#9

Wesley,
you can add launchpad search engines, e.g. looking for ppa with 'grub' in it, to your browser search manager.
http://mycroft.mozdev.org/search-engines.html?name=launchpad