Question #78588 on Ubuntu changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/78588
Tom posted a new comment: Ok, so when you've done cd /boot/grub ls sudo cp menu.lst menu.lst.300709 ls then do gksudo gedit menu.lst Note that "gksudo" and "sudo" do the same job but "gksudo" is better to use when the command is going to open a gui console, in this case the text-editor "gedit". This needs to be opened as SuperUser because it's a system file so you wouldn't be able to save your changes without "sudoing it" as we say. Now scroll right down to the very end of all this and find the section that looks a bit like this # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS # on /dev/sda1 title Microsoft Windows Vista root (hd0,0) savedefault makeactive chainloader +1 cut your version (the numbers and some other details might be a little different on your machine) and then scroll back to the end of # section and paste your version in to look a bit like this ... ## should update-grub add savedefault to the default options ## can be true or false # savedefault=false ## ## End Default Options ## # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS # on /dev/sda1 title Microsoft Windows Vista root (hd0,0) savedefault makeactive chainloader +1 title Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-11-generic root (hd1,2) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic root=UUID=66daaabd-ec15-4184-6oo9-df800b17fde2 ro quiet splash initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic quiet ... Ok the "..." is just for you to show you that there's some stuff preceding and some stuff following this section. Also where i have "root (hd1,2)" that was to get around a problem i was having, yours should be using the uuid numbers so that if you change around your physical hard- drives inside your machine then grub will still look for the same partition where-ever you moved it to ;) Ok, so that puts the Vista option at the top of your boot menu but now grub will default into booting into that so scroll right up to the top of menu.lst and find the section ## default num # Set the default entry to the entry number NUM. Numbering starts from 0, and # the entry number 0 is the default if the command is not used. # # You can specify 'saved' instead of a number. In this case, the default entry # is the entry saved with the command 'savedefault'. # WARNING: If you are using dmraid do not use 'savedefault' or your # array will desync and will not let you boot your system. # default 0 and delete the # at the start of the last line there and change the number to 1 so that line becomes default 1 Going back to the question you asked tho - try scrolling through menu.lst until you reach this section ## controls how many kernels should be put into the menu.lst ## only counts the first occurence of a kernel, not the ## alternative kernel options ## e.g. howmany=all ## howmany=7 # howmany=all and make that last line howmany=2 Finally click on the "Save" button an then perhaps try a reboot to see if it had the right effect :) Good luck with all this! Regards from Tom :) Note that system files often have a lot of lines starting with # as this stops the machine taking any notice of what's on the line. So it's a handy way for us to leave notes to each other without confusing the machine. We say these lines are "commented out", some system files use a different character but i think there's only 2 characters that act in this way -- You received this question notification because you are a member of UF Unanswered Posts Team, which is an answer contact for Ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntuforums-unanswered Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntuforums-unanswered More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
