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

[Jim Roby]

Great,so Grub is located in the MBR but refers to it's menu list inside 
the default partition.?
Ubuantu is listed as the default,but it also list two other iterations 
of the same OS,one seems like
a diagnostic and the other a memory check shell.Then comes the line 
Other OS and below that
Win2K.I was able to access the Grub shell but it would'nt accept 
changes,probably since I wasn't root and logged in. Thanks Jason.

Jason Axelson wrote:
> 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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