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Can't Edit Menu.lst File

Asked by Rusty

When I try to edit my Menu.lst file, it is blank. I have searched for the file and apparently it doesn't exist.??? I am dual-booting Ubuntu & Vista and no longer have the 10 second countdown clock that I once had which gave me time to decide which OS to boot to. Now I have to manually hit "Enter" to boot to the OSes.

:~$ gksudo update-grubFound linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-17-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-17-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-16-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-16-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-14-generic
Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin
Found Windows Vista (loader) on /dev/sda1
Found Windows Vista (loader) on /dev/sda2

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Best zvacet (ivicakolic) said : 		#1

In Karmic is different grub named grub2.You can read about it on https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2 and http://members.iinet.net/~herman546/p20.html

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Rusty (rustylong) said : 		#2

Zvacet: Thanks for the Grub2 web links. They are very informative. My next question is, and I'm not sure if this should be asked in another forum Entry, how do I configure a file that is Read-Only. I have gone to permissions but the Read & Write dropdown boxes are "grayed out."

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Pétur Ingi Egilsson (petur) said : 		#3

The file appears read-only for you because you do not have the permissions to edit it.

From the command line try: "sudo pico /file/name"
example: "sudo pico /boot/grub/grub.cfg"

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Rusty (rustylong) said : 		#4

Thanks zvacet, that solved my question.