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boot order update

Asked by ndc_home

I have installed ubuntu desktop 9.10. I want to change the boot order, but there is no MENU.LST in the /boot/grub folder. There is a read only file called grub.cfg, which contains what I would expect to see in Menu.lst, but that file can't be changed. I tried "Start-up manager", but the changes made there are ignored.

How does changing boot menu work in 9.10 please? I have searched documents and forums but all mention menu.lst.

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#1

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Grub2
http://members.iinet.net/~herman546/p20.html

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ndc_home (colin-neal) said : 		#2

Thank you. I'll check the documentation out and try to makes changes.

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ndc_home (colin-neal) said : 		#3

The options to run sudo update-grub or sudo grub-mkconfig did not produce the hoped for results. "update" wanted to produce a menu.lst file and the "mkconfig" had error messages.

Checked package loading through Synaptic package management and found Grub2 wasn't loaded. Even though "grub.cfg" was clearly running the boot-up. So I marked Grub 2 for install and ran this.

Following that I retried the Start-up manager package. This now worked fine. Where all you want to do is change time out and default operating system in grub.cfg, then Start-Up manager does the job.

However I do want to edit the operating system names, and so far haven't found which file contain s these. I gather that the list of operating systems is automatically produced. But for some reason it thinks i've still got Windows 7 loaded instead of XP.

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#4

> want to edit the operating system names
http://members.iinet.net/~herman546/p20/GRUB2%20Configuration%20File%20Commands.html#Custom_Boot_Entries

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ndc_home (colin-neal) said : 		#5

Thanks, i'll check that out