I'm not sure if this is pebcak or a bug & I may have included a lot of
extraneous information here to put my problem in context - please be
patient with the n00b :)
Background to why I needed to edit grub:
For some reason unbeknown to me PAE cannot load nVidia on my new HP
notebook: 1T dual hdd (500gb x2) with 4gb ddr3 sdram, nVidia GeForce GT
230m with 1gb ddr3, with Ubuntu 9.10 on the 2nd hdd.
generic-pae always starts in "low graphics mode".
Due to my limited abilities with resoving my PAE/nVidia problem I chose
to use "Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.31-17-generic" because nVidia works fine
with the plain generic kernel. (I'd really like to be able to use pae
because the plain generic kernel means I have 1gb of unused ram but
that's another story.)
What I did:
So in /etc/default/grub I set
GRUB_DEFAULT=saved
I updated grub and ran
sudo grub-set-default "Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.31-17-generic"
in the terminal.
My problem:
When grub loads the top entry "Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.31-17-generic-pae" is
still highlighted which is very disconcerting! But thankfully grub
actually loads the saved grub-set-default
"Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.31-17-generic"
Shouldn't grub be highlighting my saved choice?
Is this a bug or is it something that I failed to do?
As a work around - my thoughts are to maybe delete the generic-pae
entries from /grub.
Or can I reorder the menuentry list to put
"Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.31-17-generic" at the top?
I've had a good read of
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2 but I can't see how to reorder
them.
Am I going about this the wrong way?
Any suggestions?
cheers,
Meryl
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