hi with respect to the idea of manually editing the grub.cfg, it is specifically stated by grub developers not to manually edit alter its contents as it is an auto generated one. below is a good howto regarding setting the grub parameters the instructions are very simple enough and can do wonders for you as i have found personally
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1195275 thanks Bipin On Feb 17, 5:11 pm, Aswin S <[email protected]> wrote: > You can also edit the grub conf file in /boot/grub/grub.cfg . Comment the > lines which you donot want to appear in grub menu. (use # to comment) > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 11:14 AM, bipinkumar <[email protected]> wrote: > > if u want u cab remove the unused kernel images using synaptics. this > > will also remove the unwanted entries from the grub menu. to do sogot > > > system> Administration> synaptic package manager > > > look for entries starting with linux-image-xxxxxx > > > where xxxx is the version number. mark for uninstall entries that u do > > not wish to use and click apply. this will automatically remove the > > grub entries as well. be careful not to remove the most recent kernel > > that u probably might be using. this will lead to system being > > unbootable after restart. the advantage of this method is that u can > > free up lot of free space that otherwise were used up by the older > > kernel packages > > > hope this well help > > > Bipin > > > On Feb 16, 11:08 pm, prakreet <[email protected]> wrote: > > > i hav a doubt... > > > > how can i hide an entry in the startupmanager.. this would be very > > > useful since after sometime the grub menu will be a mess with the > > > entries for each kernel ubuntu installs.. > > > -- > > "Freedom is the only law". > > "Freedom Unplugged" > >http://www.ilug-tvm.org > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "ilug-tvm" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected] > > > For details visit the website:www.ilug-tvm.orgor the google group page: > >http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en > > --http://www.aswinatgec.wordpress.com/ > i would love to change the world..... but they wont give me the source > code... -- "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en
