Re: [Dorset] Changing the Boot Order with grub2
On Monday 02 Nov 2009, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Perhaps the `DEFAULT' entry in /etc/default/grub? (Menu items numbered from 0.) And then run `sudo update-grub'. Other configuration resides in /etc/grub.d, allegedly. But none of that probably applies since I gleaned it from the forum post you gave. Sorry Ralph, I just reread what I posted, it's /etc/default/grub that I don't have. In fact I do have /boot/grub/grub.cfg, which is very complicated and isn't intended (as I see it) to be edited directly This is ultimately what gets changed through the process that you mentioned. I'm getting old you know ;-) -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2009-11-03 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.orgchannel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
Re: [Dorset] Changing the Boot Order with grub2
On Monday 02 Nov 2009, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Yes, AIUI the upgrade leaves you at grub 1, and doesn't update the non-Linux code, whereas a clean install uses grub 2. Version 1 has menu.lst, 2 has default/grub, so you need to investigate the problem on the right machine. :-) Yes. But Kubuntu 9.04 used to have a boot order setting tool under the System Settings App. This has now been removed, so whichever system is installed, the User now has to get down and dirty to do something which used to be trivial. Each time they bring out a new version, they add lots of new features, some of which are worth having, but remove something else that makes it harder for the new user. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2009-11-03 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.orgchannel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
Re: [Dorset] Changing the Boot Order with grub2
If anybody wants to get really angry, I've got some news about Starbucks; if you do an image search for Starbucks, you find that any conversion to bitmap is protected from binary read at the stream buffer level. It is only Starbucks images, and it is obvious that there is protected data in any Starbucks file. Whether this is copyright protection or something more sinister is open to question. - Original Message - From: Terry Coles d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk To: Dorset Linux User Group dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk Sent: Sunday, November 01, 2009 1:42 PM Subject: [Dorset] Changing the Boot Order with grub2 Hi, My upgrades to Kubuntu 9.10 didn't *all* go smoothly; my wife's Mesh (64 bit Dual-core Athlon) locked up halfway through installation, with the inevitable result of an unusable machine. I still don't know what went wrong, but I'm always ready to do a clean install, so I grabbed the 64 bit disc of the servers and within around an hour I had a very fast system. The only problem is the boot order. On 9.04 I had set this so that Windows was the default, because this is the family games machine and mostly runs Windows games. The new system has Kubuntu as the default and I cannot work out how to change this. 9.04 had a Boot Settings tool as part of the System Settings tool. As I recall, it wasn't particularly sophisticated and simply allowed you to edit menu.lst. 9.10 has no such file because it uses grub2. I found my way to various pages on the internet including this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1195275. These all talk about menu.lst being replaced by /boot/grub/grub.cfg. The trouble is that I don't seem to have this file. Does anyone know what I should do? -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2009-11-03 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.orgchannel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2009-11-03 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.orgchannel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
Re: [Dorset] Changing the Boot Order with grub2
Simon O'Riordan wrote: If anybody wants to get really angry, I've got some news about Starbucks; if you do an image search for Starbucks, you find that any conversion to bitmap is protected from binary read at the stream buffer level. It is only Starbucks images, and it is obvious that there is protected data in any Starbucks file. Whether this is copyright protection or something more sinister is open to question. joh...@liberator:~$ wget http://starbucks.co.uk/IntlCMS/images/headers/header_logo1.gif --2009-11-01 19:26:42-- http://starbucks.co.uk/IntlCMS/images/headers/header_logo1.gif Resolving starbucks.co.uk... 12.129.19.148 Connecting to starbucks.co.uk|12.129.19.148|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 3231 (3.2K) [image/gif] Saving to: `header_logo1.gif' 100%[==] 3,231 10.6K/s in 0.3s 2009-11-01 19:26:48 (10.6 KB/s) - `header_logo1.gif' saved [3231/3231] joh...@liberator:~$ convert header_logo1.gif header_logo1.bmp joh...@liberator:~$ ristretto header_logo1.bmp It looks OK to me. What did I miss? -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2009-11-03 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.orgchannel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
Re: [Dorset] Changing the Boot Order with grub2
I have a utility that strips data bytes out of a bitmap. It doesn't have a problem with any bitmap except those found by a Google image search of Starbucks, or files with Starbucks in the name. You can convert any of these files quite freely between forms(GIF,TIFF,JPG,BMP) or edit the image in Paint or Gimp. I had use windows at this stage because VS is a quick way to set up a programme that reads BMP and strips down the data. With Starbucks files I can't even get the byte stream running to read the header. There is some kind of compression or encryption that only affects Starbucks images. It was running for a week before this happened. Next stage is to revert to ansi stdio.h functions and see if they are defeated too. Crazy but true! - Original Message - From: John Carlyle-Clarke j...@wormdrive.net To: Dorset Linux User Group dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk Sent: Sunday, November 01, 2009 7:29 PM Subject: Re: [Dorset] Changing the Boot Order with grub2 Simon O'Riordan wrote: If anybody wants to get really angry, I've got some news about Starbucks; if you do an image search for Starbucks, you find that any conversion to bitmap is protected from binary read at the stream buffer level. It is only Starbucks images, and it is obvious that there is protected data in any Starbucks file. Whether this is copyright protection or something more sinister is open to question. joh...@liberator:~$ wget http://starbucks.co.uk/IntlCMS/images/headers/header_logo1.gif --2009-11-01 19:26:42-- http://starbucks.co.uk/IntlCMS/images/headers/header_logo1.gif Resolving starbucks.co.uk... 12.129.19.148 Connecting to starbucks.co.uk|12.129.19.148|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 3231 (3.2K) [image/gif] Saving to: `header_logo1.gif' 100%[==] 3,231 10.6K/s in 0.3s 2009-11-01 19:26:48 (10.6 KB/s) - `header_logo1.gif' saved [3231/3231] joh...@liberator:~$ convert header_logo1.gif header_logo1.bmp joh...@liberator:~$ ristretto header_logo1.bmp It looks OK to me. What did I miss? -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2009-11-03 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.orgchannel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2009-11-03 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.orgchannel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
Re: [Dorset] Changing the Boot Order with grub2
Maybe I've discovered a malicious .NET Easter Egg! - Original Message - From: Simon O'Riordan voluntar...@btopenworld.com To: Dorset Linux User Group dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk Sent: Sunday, November 01, 2009 8:08 PM Subject: Re: [Dorset] Changing the Boot Order with grub2 I have a utility that strips data bytes out of a bitmap. It doesn't have a problem with any bitmap except those found by a Google image search of Starbucks, or files with Starbucks in the name. You can convert any of these files quite freely between forms(GIF,TIFF,JPG,BMP) or edit the image in Paint or Gimp. I had use windows at this stage because VS is a quick way to set up a programme that reads BMP and strips down the data. With Starbucks files I can't even get the byte stream running to read the header. There is some kind of compression or encryption that only affects Starbucks images. It was running for a week before this happened. Next stage is to revert to ansi stdio.h functions and see if they are defeated too. Crazy but true! - Original Message - From: John Carlyle-Clarke j...@wormdrive.net To: Dorset Linux User Group dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk Sent: Sunday, November 01, 2009 7:29 PM Subject: Re: [Dorset] Changing the Boot Order with grub2 Simon O'Riordan wrote: If anybody wants to get really angry, I've got some news about Starbucks; if you do an image search for Starbucks, you find that any conversion to bitmap is protected from binary read at the stream buffer level. It is only Starbucks images, and it is obvious that there is protected data in any Starbucks file. Whether this is copyright protection or something more sinister is open to question. joh...@liberator:~$ wget http://starbucks.co.uk/IntlCMS/images/headers/header_logo1.gif --2009-11-01 19:26:42-- http://starbucks.co.uk/IntlCMS/images/headers/header_logo1.gif Resolving starbucks.co.uk... 12.129.19.148 Connecting to starbucks.co.uk|12.129.19.148|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 3231 (3.2K) [image/gif] Saving to: `header_logo1.gif' 100%[==] 3,231 10.6K/s in 0.3s 2009-11-01 19:26:48 (10.6 KB/s) - `header_logo1.gif' saved [3231/3231] joh...@liberator:~$ convert header_logo1.gif header_logo1.bmp joh...@liberator:~$ ristretto header_logo1.bmp It looks OK to me. What did I miss? -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2009-11-03 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.orgchannel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2009-11-03 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.orgchannel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2009-11-03 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.orgchannel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
