Hi Terry, > In the stock Kubuntu installation (and I assume on Ubuntu as well), > that line doesn't even exist, let alone be set to true. > > Last evening and this morning, I've been pondering why Dell set that > flag at all.
Well, https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Multi_002dboot-manual-config.html suggests there's problems with os-prober, and I can Google reports of it hanging when you've a no-OS-installed USB stick installed, etc. That installation I edited was placed on the machine by Dell then? Sorry, I know you've explained, but there's a lot of other things to remember. :-) -- Cheers, Ralph. https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2016-11-01 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK IF YOU'RE REPLYING Reporting bugs well: http://goo.gl/4Xue / TO THE LIST OR THE AUTHOR