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

[Peter Besenbruch]

On Sunday 11 May 2008 12:51:27 Jim Roby wrote:
> 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. 

If your Windows 2000 partition is hosed, and you don't want to repair, 
reinstall, or otherwise fix it, you might want to get rid of the partition 
that it sits on, and expand the one Ubuntu sits on. This is a bit more 
involved, in that you need to know which partition is which, and you may need 
to edit, not only menu.lst, but also your /etc/fstab file. The advantage you 
get is extra disk space for Linux.

The tool I use for editing partitions is the Gparted disk:
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php

I second the recommendation for Hardy Heron.
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