On Saturday, Jon Elson wrote:
> Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:24:06 -0600
> From: Jon Elson
> Subject: Re: [Emc-users] linux dual boot
> To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)"
>
> Message-ID: <4b92e416.5040...@pico-systems.com>
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On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 05:24:06PM -0600, Jon Elson wrote:
> >
> Oh NOOoo! Every time I learn something really arcane in Linux, they
> CHANGE the damn thing!
> I know a whole bunch of tricks with GRUB that have been very helpful in
> booting a new install when the install set it up a litt
9.10 does use grub2, but the correct answer was given by micges. Use
Synaptic and search for "linux" in Name only (not Name and Description).
Uninstall all but the newest linux-image*** and linux-headers***
packages. You want to leave linux-generic, linux-headers-generic (if
it's installed), and
Ian W. Wright wrote:
> Thanks everyone - Richard got the right answer - its Grub2.
>
Oh NOOoo! Every time I learn something really arcane in Linux, they
CHANGE the damn thing!
I know a whole bunch of tricks with GRUB that have been very helpful in
booting a new install when the install s
Thanks everyone - Richard got the right answer - its Grub2.
Unfortunately, it seems to be more difficult to set up than
the web pages suggest - e.g. Startup Manager which I have
just installed, only has half the options the webpage says
it should have!! Too late to worry about it tonight though
9.10 probably installed Grub2 which has no menu.lst. (I think upgrades
to 9.10 retain Grub legacy, new installs use Grub2 - quite different)
There is a useful starting point here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2
Richard
Andrew wrote:
> On my ubuntu it's here:
>
> /boot/grub/menu.lst
>
>
On my ubuntu it's here:
/boot/grub/menu.lst
On Saturday 06 Mar 2010, Ian W. Wright wrote:
> Hi, does anyone know where Ubuntu or Windows Vista puts its
> boot info? I have a laptop which came with Win Vista (yuk..)
> installed and I then installed Ubuntu 9.10 accepting all its
> defaults except
n
remove the older versions, and they'll disapear from the grub boot menu.
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From: "Ian W. Wright"
Subj: [Emc-users] linux dual boot
Date: Sat 2010 Mar 6 7:37
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Ian W. Wright pisze:
> Hi, does anyone know where Ubuntu or Windows Vista puts its
> boot info? I have a laptop which came with Win Vista (yuk..)
> installed and I then installed Ubuntu 9.10 accepting all its
> defaults except the hard drive partition size where I asked
> it to split the hard d
Grub boot options are located in /boot/grub/menu.lst
hope it helps.
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Hi, does anyone know where Ubuntu or Windows Vista puts its
boot info? I have a laptop which came with Win Vista (yuk..)
installed and I then installed Ubuntu 9.10 accepting all its
defaults except the hard drive partition size where I asked
it to split the hard drive in two equal parts for Win
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