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Aug 11, 2011

I have Fedora 15 x64 with Gnome-shell installed on a Toshiba Satelite L505 Laptop alongside Windows 7, and Ubuntu 11.04. Fedora was the last installation so it currently has the controls of the grub installation which is what I was going for. I upgraded to Grub2 (1.98 and then some). I did some hunting and found this guide: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1534689I followed the instructions to the T (or atleast I thought I did) for writing and installing the demo theme on "Fedora 14" which worked without errors on 15.When I rebooted I got:Grub yadayadafor about 1.5 seconds and then the background image for the theme showed up but no menu! I tried shift & Esc, nothing. I pressed enter and it booted fedora 15. this is where i got my first bright idea (First i should mention that the loading box images showed up after i hit enter but still no text). I rebooted again (knowing the order of what the grub menu would be if it were visible) and this time i hit the down arrow 5 times then hit enter, sure enough, and it booted windows. So I can interact with the menu but not "see" it.

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From man beesu:

Code:

See man beesu for more information.

Beesu can be installed in Fedora with the following command:

Code:

IMPORTANT: Beesu must be installed in order to successfully complete this tutorial.

You can use beesu from the command line with the following example:

Code:

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Copy the following code into a new text file and name it mybeesu.sh.

Code:

You need to change the /path/to bit in step 4 "Command" to reflect the path to which you saved the mybeesu.sh script. Click the OK button to save the new menu item.

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cp /boot/grub/grub.cfg /tmp/cdroot/boot/grub
cd /tmp

[code]....

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Code:
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default 4
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[Code]....

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Code:

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Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-17-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic
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# If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update
# /boot/grub/grub.cfg.
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Jan 24, 2010

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How do I get rid of these obsolete entries? The partitions it was on simply do not exist any longer, so I don't know how GRUB2 is picking it up.

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Jun 3, 2010

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Jun 25, 2010

I upgraded my main box to Ubuntu 10.04 and everything runs fine, except for a problem with grub: I can't modify the boot menu in any way, I'm stuck with what grub2 thought was the optimal setup at installation time (and it got it wrong, btw). The current boot menu lists:

- my older 9.10 install in sdb2 (one kernel)
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- my even older 9.04 install in sdb1 (two kernel versions)
- my new install in sdb3, with only one kernel (the one coming with the distro CD)

I tried anything I could think of to modify this menu:

- modify the /etc grub config file then running sudo update-grub
- using a specific app (system manager? don't remember its name)
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Jun 25, 2010

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Ubuntu 2.6.32-21
Ubuntu 2.6.32-21 (recovery)
Windows XP

How can I make it so that Grub generates entries in this order
Ubuntu 2.6.32-22
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Ubuntu 2.6.32-22 (recovery
Ubuntu 2.6.32-21
Ubuntu 2.6.32-21 (recovery)

If you're wondering why I care about the order, its because I just installed Grub with an icon based theme. In that situation, it looks silly to have 4 Ubuntu Icons next to each other, and then the windows one at the end.

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Aug 9, 2010

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I grabed a "boot info script" from Rubi1200 and this is what I got..
Code:
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