My grub2 boot entries never change. I have run sudo update-grub and it finds all the proper kernels and such and says that it has updated. I check with the menu.lst and grub.cfg and they both look to be correct
View 13 Replies
It's quite easy to change the default boot entry through etc/default/grub. However, this only allows for the first entry to be changed. I want to be able to move all the entries in any order I like. What is the best/easiest way to do this?
View 1 Replies View RelatedNow it's:
Ubuntu
Memtest
Windows 7
I want:
Windows 7
Ubuntu
Memtest
How do I go about doing it? Do I rename "30_os-prober" in /etc/grub.d/ to "10_os-prober" and "10_linux" to "30_linux"?
So my grub menu is showing several selections for each of my OS's. In Ubuntu, my OS of choice for now, how can I access the grub and edit it.
I would like to know the steps for console, but also I hope somebody can show me how to use Super Grub to do it.
Intalled GRUB using Live CD. My problem is very similar to these..
Code:
1. sudo grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda
2. sudo mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev
3. sudo mount -t proc none /mnt/proc
[Code]....
There are 2 osx entries in the grub menu one is 32-bit and the other is 64-bit, how i can get rid of the 32-bit one? i am using ubuntu 10.4 and snow leopard 10.6.3
View 9 Replies View RelatedHow to remove OS's from the GRUB boot menu, and also, how can I change the default booter from Ubuntu to a different OS and edit timeout?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a mental block whenever I'm confronted with anything to do with grub2. Changing things in menu.lst was SO much simpler....
I want to include the command 'acpi=off' - but where do I put it? Can I change the detail of an existing grub entry in this way, or do I have to create a complete custom menu entry in grub.d and include it in that?
i'm using ubuntu 9.10... i'm working on some projects on L4 microkernel... i want to add it to the grub...i was familiar with the earlier grub, i.e editing the menu.lst...
title = L4Ka:istachio/i586 pingpong
kernel=/boot/kickstart
module=/boot/i586-kernel
module=/boot/sigma0
module=/boot/pingpong
how can i do this in new grub version...? i tried adding the following to /etc/grub.d/40_custom but failed...
menuentry "L4Ka:istachio" {
set root=(hd0,9)
kernel=/boot/kickstart[code ]..........
grub is giving me six (6!) repetitions of my Ubuntu Lucid install on sda5, five repetitions of my old karmic install on sda1, and I think four of the recovery option.Where have I told it to do that? How do I fix it??The grub choices look like this:
Code:
most recent lucid kernel on sda5
most recent lucid kernel recovery option
[code]....
I have a dual-boot grub2. On the list, there are Ubuntu 10.04, Memtest x86, and Windows7. I was wondering if it is possible to make Windows 7 first in the grub boot list. At the moment Ubuntu is first, so if it's possible to make windows 7 first.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have made a custom grub2 menu however, both the default and the custom show together. So my grub looks like the list below, the bolded entries are my custom ones. How do I get rid of the duplicates? I have tried apt-get remove and deleting old kernels.
ubuntu,linux ...
ubuntu,linux recovery
memtest
memtest
windows7
windows7
ubuntu linux
ubuntu linux recover
i have an entry in grub that i don't use at all "Windows recovey " and i want to know if there is a way to remove it or just hide it i have an other problem is grub confuses some partitions names so is there a way to rename them
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have been fooling around with some of the new kernels and have ended up with a lot of options in my grub at boot. I have been checking this page:[URL].. ... and it appears hiding the entries in grub2 is not as easy as hashing them out (#) which was the convention in grub.
My problem: I have installed kernel 2.6.36 and 2.6.37 just to fool around. Neither works in anything but low-graphics as it seems the ATI graphics driver is not working in either yet. They both also kill my wireless (don't recognise the card). BUT I don't want to completely uninstall them as I'd like to keep playing around as time goes on and they develop. I'd like to just hide them from the menu.
Is there some easy way of doing this? The link I provide only gives options to make the kernel non-executable (overly complicated process) or remove the kernel completely, neither of which I want to do. This used to be simple in grub, open a file and add or remove a #, and - although overall I prefer grub2 - IMHO this 'improvement' seems a little like a backward step. Sure a million people will disagree, but .
I have been reading this but could not resolve my issue: [URL]. The problem is as follows. I got a samsung laptop and there is some kind of recovery utility installed. After installing Ubuntu I get too windows grub entries, one is called Windows Vista (loader) on /dev/sda1 and the other one is Windows 7 (loader) on /dev/sda2. The latter is correct and the first one is something that I'd rather not have active at all in the grub menu. Both of them are of course created by 30_os-prober in /etc/grub.d. I figured that I would most likely prefer a custom entry for Windows 7 and remove the x flag from 30_os-prober. I tried to create a file 50_windows7 in a described manner:
#! /bin/sh -e
echo "Adding Windows 43_custom" >&2
menuentry "Windows Vista 43_custom" {
insmod ntfs
set root=(hd0,2)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 7cecddfbecddb01e
chainloader +1 }
Unfortunately during update-grub I get following:
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-17-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-17-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-14-generic
Found Windows Vista (loader) on /dev/sda1
Found Windows 7 (loader) on /dev/sda2
Adding Windows 43_custom
/etc/grub.d/50_windows7: 4: menuentry: not found
i've started off using linux with ubuntu 10.10, and then i moved to linux mint 10 kde, and after finding out that it didn't support my hardware, in specifically my graphics card, i switched back to ubuntu 10.10, and from there i upgraded to 11.04. i hated the gui so i switched it from ubuntu to ubuntu (classic) environment. i also installed kubuntu-desktop too, and it looks a lot like mint 10 kde, i guess it uses kde 4.6, but... it's more stable for me. anyway, what i mean is that, originally ubuntu had a black background, linux mint 10 kde had a pretty cool custom mint background, ubuntu 11.04 has a purple background. i looked on videos, i found people using customized backgrounds, but they either don't explain how they got it *like for instance, someone said opensuse 11 or 13 has an icy penguin animated background, and someone else had one that you could scroll through.* or it's too complicated or outdated. is there a simple way to change your grub2 boot loader background image?
View 3 Replies View RelatedWhen I originally installed Ubuntu 9.10 64 bit, I had the following operating systems already installed:
Kubuntu 9.04
Windows 7
Windows XP
Ubuntu automagically created a GRUB2 menu that offered all of these, plus of course itself, which was fine for a while.
Later on, I deleted and reformatted the partitions that had been dedicated to Kubuntu 9.04. GRUB2 has failed to keep up. Despite running "sudo update-grub" multiple times, the GRUB2 menu continues to show entries for Kubuntu 9.04.
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.
I had already edited my fstab file to reflect the new partitioning scheme, so I don't know where GRUB2 is getting the idea that I still have Kubuntu 9.04 installed.
As it stands right now, Grub2 seems to generate menu entries in this order (for my pc)
Ubuntu 2.6.32-22
Ubuntu 2.6.32-22 (recovery)
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
Windows XP
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.
i have been running Kubuntu 10.04 on my primary hard drive, and i have a second 1.5TB HD that i use for storage. so shrunk the secondary HD partition and created a second 50GB partition and i installed Ubuntu 10.10 on it and told it to rewrite the mbr on my primary HD. Where i am at: i took the menu entry from my Kubuntu "grub.cfg" and the entry from my Ubuntu "grub.cfg" and put them in the 40_custom file. so now when i boot-up my computer, it shows both installations at the bottom of Grub2s menu list. with all the menu entries that Grub automatically adds.
What i would like to know is how do i make it so that the Grub2 menu only shows the entries that i add to the 40_Custom file and not the randomly generated list aswell.
Is it possible to add menu entries for older kernels to boot instead of the latest?
I have tried this in Ubuntu 10.04 and it hasn't worked.
This used to be possible with ease in grub legacy.
I copied the current menu entry from /boot/grub/grub.cfg and pasted it in the /etc/grub.d/ 20_custom file.
Then I changed the kernel number to the older kernel number and the initrd number too. #update-grub puts this entry into 'grub.cfg', but it doesn't work.
I get:
The old kernel is in /boot as well as the respective initrd and config files.
I've just got a question about this. What if you wanted to change only the display sequence in Grub 2 (Ubuntu 9.10) and not which o/s boots first or is the deault o/s? In previous versions of grub you could just copy & paste the lines in /boot/grub/menu.lst, but this version of grub doesn't allow you to edit /boot/grub/grub.cfg...
View 11 Replies View RelatedI like to load other distro's via their own grub.
So at the min I add an entry to code...
however when update-grub2 is run it also adds its own entries (for arch linux).
Is there a way to stop the update-grub2 script automatically adding a entry on a specific partition ?
i initilally installed ubuntu 9.10 then installed windows 7 ,then i recovered grub2 using livecd as told in the post [URL] i did "sudo update-grub" and got windows 7 menu entry but when i select that entry windows 7 does not load but the grub2 is reloaded again.
i cant boot to windows 7.
Windows 7 have 100 mb partition "System Reserved" the grub2 points to that partition but still windows 7 not loaded.
sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x3c3a81f5
[Code]....
I went through so many post but I haven't found the proper answer yet hope you have an Idea1. Grub2 saves only Linux OS as last selected no Windows OS2.It is possible to boot into a cdrom (drive)?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have window 7, Ubuntu and Cent Os installed in my system. I was actually trying to change boots options but unfortunatly i lost all boot entries. Is there anyway i can recover all three boot records.
View 7 Replies View Relatedi have ubuntu 10.10 installed using wubi inside win7.when i power on the pc, i get a black screen with three os options :windows 7, ubuntu, ubuntu. there are 2 ubuntu options probably due to uninstalling of wubi and reinstalling of it.
both ubuntu entries lead to the same os, but i wish to get rid of one of them (for aesthetic reasons), i also wish to change the time out of this screen. btw, how is this screen called ? (as i think this is not the grub menu screen. am i right ?)
Anyone, I would like to ask if it was possible to change the entries of a file's inode table ?
For example
Code...
I was wondering if I can change the entries in this inode table's entries.
For example I want to change the "Modify" entry ? I want it to reflect to day 2009-05-19 for example.
Can i do it ?
Have been running ubuntu for sometime now and love its functionality...However since a recent update have the following issues..When I power on the laptop I get the toshiba logo followed by grub loading with the message ' invalid enviroment block" "unable to load default boot entries". When I then try to run the laptop off a LiveCd, the ubuntu splash screen appears with the loading process bar (horizontal line) displayed..however it then appears to display a black screen with no further activity..Now all of this is via an external monitor as my laptop screen shows no activity right from the very start with just a blank screen....so am really stuck here wondering if its a harware/software issue or a combination of both...
View 1 Replies View Relatedwhen i turn on my computer it says: error : no such device : a77318a7-5f3d-4531-8d27-370f2b43c0e2.Failed to boot default entries
View 9 Replies View RelatedIt seems each time I select 'restart later' after downloading updates I get extra lines on my boot screen.The top line works correctly to get me into Ubuntu & the bottom Win. How do I delete the unnecessary lines?
View 8 Replies View Related
