Great,so Grub is located in the MBR but refers to it's menu list inside
the default partition.?
Ubuantu is listed as the default,but it also list two other iterations
of the same OS,one seems like
a diagnostic and the other a memory check shell.Then comes the line
Other OS and below that
Win2K.I was able to access the Grub shell but it would'nt accept
changes,probably since I wasn't root and logged in. Thanks Jason.
Jason Axelson wrote:
Hi,
You never want to uninstall grub because it is the bootloader that
loads ubuntu. Instead you should edit it's configuration file. In a
terminal type sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
If the default entry is already ubuntu (the default it whatever one is
selected when you first boot up)
then all you need to do is change the timeout from 10 to 0 (it should
be around line 19)
If you need to change the default, you would need to change the
default setting. But I believe that when you install Ubuntu it makes
Ubuntu the default anyway.
Jason
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Jim Roby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Here is a Linux/Ubuntu question.
I just tried for the first time Ububtu, (gutsy Gibbon) I was amazed at how
user friendly and well
designed the desktop is.This older guy runs a community center with
broadband.We came upon
a hosed install of Win2K and decided we should try Ubuntu to see how it is
received by the public.
It installed great,I used partitioning software included on the live CD to
split the disk in two,giving
Ubuntu the second partition.It installed Grub with a menu pointing to
Win2K.All attempts to right the Windows distro failed and I then decided to
give the entire disk to Ubuantu.Now we have a boot menu that boots Ubuantu
but still points to the non existant Win2K...it just yields an error
message and you can go back to boot the working OS. I would like to wipe
the menu which now doesn't look pro,but reading I see there is no uninstall
of Grub...man pages say to over write it.
Is this safe? And how should I go about it? fdisk /mbr or something like
that? Should I make a boot floppy first? machine has a floppy drive.
David Kiwerski wrote:
Seems so, but not very active presently.
Al Plant wrote:
Is the Luau list still alive?
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