I need some help on editing menu.lst. I'm trying to change it so that my laptop's default is to boot into Linux instead of Windows.
If I want to read menu.lst by executing "less menu.lst" I have no problem. But if I execute "vi menu.lst" I get this: > E325: ATTENTION > Found a swap file by the name ".menu.lst.swp" > owned by: root dated: Tue Jul 10 23:00:09 2007 > file name: /boot/grub/menu.lst > modified: YES > user name: root host name: fir > process ID: 6909 > While opening file "menu.lst" > dated: Tue Aug 26 18:09:56 2008 > NEWER than swap file! > > (1) Another program may be editing the same file. > If this is the case, be careful not to end up with two > different instances of the same file when making changes. > Quit, or continue with caution. > > (2) An edit session for this file crashed. > If this is the case, use ":recover" or "vim -r menu.lst" > to recover the changes (see ":help recovery"). > If you did this already, delete the swap file ".menu.lst.swp" > to avoid this message. > > Swap file ".menu.lst.swp" already exists! > [O]pen Read-Only, (E)dit anyway, (R)ecover, (D)elete it, (Q)uit, (A)bort: I don't get this "menu.lst.swp" thing. My guess is that I should choose "E" and "edit anyway." Is this what I should do? Is there any danger here? Thank you. Bob _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
