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Where to find menu.lst in Ubuntu 9.10

Asked by Arindam

Hi,
I have recently upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10. I want to change the boot menu options. But I am not able to fin the menu.lst file under /boot/grub folder. What is the location of the file in 9.10?

I was able to find it in the same location in 9.04.

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Ryan Dwyer (ryandwyer) said : 		#1

Grub 2 does not use menu.lst. If you did a fresh install of Karmic it would have installed Grub 2.

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Arindam (arindam-biswas) said : 		#2

Ryan,
Actually I did a fresh install. I was having 9.04 and I tried upgrade to 9.10. But it corrupt my Ubuntu installation. Please see Question #88038 for the details of the error I received.

Then I got 9.10 CD and used it to install Ubuntu on the same drive where it was installed previously.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2

Grub2 uses scripts and config files to generate /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Editting this file is pointless as next time a new kernel is added, the config is recalculated and the changes will be lost. To make them permanent you must edit the grub config then run:

sudo update-grub

to apply it.

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Arindam (arindam-biswas) said : 		#4

Thanks for sharing the link.

I was going through it. What I understood it - it is a step backward!!! I do not understand much how much improvement Grub2 will be providing, but for sure they have made edit the boot menu a very very difficult and complex job. Not at all user friendly. A person habituated to using a simple file as menu.lst will find it impossible to move around so many files to understand how to achieve this simple things. Not at all appreciated.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#5

You can install grub1 if you like. it is available still (not sure for how long)

Here are the "advantages":
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-2.en.html

For single boots its a bit excessive

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Arindam (arindam-biswas) said : 		#6

I was able to create a boot menu of my choice by following the steps mentioned at
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1195275

Specially following the steps mentioned under the section:
Building a Totally Customized Menu

I recommend, taking a copy of each file that you change. I made a mistake while editing the files and my windows was not visible in the boot menu. Just because I had backup of all the files I was saved. Please take care.
Cheers!!