[LUAU] yes...was Re: Is this list still alive...

[Jason Axelson]

Hi,
You never want to uninstall grub because it is the bootloader that
loads ubuntu.  Instead you should edit it's configuration file.  In a
terminal type sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
If the default entry is already ubuntu (the default it whatever one is
selected when you first boot up)
then all you need to do is change the timeout from 10 to 0 (it should
be around line 19)
If you need to change the default, you would need to change the
default setting.  But I believe that when you install Ubuntu it makes
Ubuntu the default anyway.

Jason

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Jim Roby <jim at jimroby.com> wrote:
> Here is a Linux/Ubuntu question.
>  I just tried for the first time Ububtu, (gutsy Gibbon) I was amazed at how
> user friendly and well
>  designed the desktop is.This older guy runs a community center with
> broadband.We came upon
>  a hosed install of Win2K and decided we should try Ubuntu to see how it is
> received by the public.
>  It installed great,I used partitioning software included on the live CD to
> split the disk in two,giving
>  Ubuntu the second partition.It installed Grub with a menu pointing to
> Win2K.All attempts to right the Windows distro failed and I then decided to
> give the entire disk to Ubuantu.Now we have a boot menu that boots Ubuantu
> but still points to the non existant Win2K...it just yields an error
>  message and you can go back to boot the working OS. I would like to wipe
> the menu which now doesn't look pro,but reading I see there is no uninstall
> of Grub...man pages say to over write it.
>  Is this safe? And how should I go about it?  fdisk /mbr or something like
> that? Should I make a boot floppy first? machine has a floppy drive.
>
>  David Kiwerski wrote:
>
> > Seems so, but not very active presently.
> >
> >
> > Al Plant wrote:
> >
> > > Is the Luau list still alive?
> > >
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