Ubuntu :: GRUB 2 Won't Listen To New Settings?
Jul 29, 2011
So I installed ubuntu 11.04 x32 (using unetbootin-win-549) next to Win7. Grub installed correctly, it added the win7 boot-loader to the list. All I wanted to change was the default selection, from Ubuntu latest kernel to Win 7. I first tried StartUp-Manager but the settings didn't take effect (default was still ubuntu and timeout was still 10, not 5 as I selected). Then I went to manually changing the etc/default/grub with gedit only to find that the new settings where already written there. So I just ran update-grub and tried again. Still nothing.
My 3rd try has been with Grub Costumizer. Still nothing.the changes were there, I tried changing them a little but after reboot, Grub still had default settings. So my question is what am I doing wrong?
I am currently using a workaround by reinstalling win7 bootloader and adding grub to the list using easybcd. Which is good because win7 is the main os (for now) and it cuts a few seconds by bypassing grub. But I would still like to know what I missed. I've been reading through the "grub 2 basics" guide but I still can't see what I'm doing wrong.
SOLVED: I did two things today, 1. I reedited /etc/default/grub with "gksu gedit" (I've seen others use it, I have no idea what it does) it is probably not this what solved it anyway. The second is that I ran "update-grub" with sudo (doh), yesterday I forgot to put sudo but it didn't give me any errors, it looked like it updated with no problems (even "/boot/grub/grub.cfg" looked updated).
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I'm using OpenSuse 11.2 64 bits When I try to listen to music in Grooveshark Grooveshark - Listen to Free Music Online - Internet Radio - Free MP3 Streaming I can listen fine, and it seems to work ok, when suddenly the sound of the website stops to work, my processor gets overload and I've to reopen the site to continue to listen. I get the following message in kernel (I'm no sure if it's related)
[ 3402.591674] ide-cd driver 5.00
[ 3402.622010] ide-gd driver 1.18
[ 3402.691580] st: Version 20081215, fixed bufsize 32768, s/g segs 256
[ 3404.308048] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
Some Hardware Info:
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deniz@deniz-laptop:~$ vlc http://www.radyoodtu.com.tr/iplayer/index.asp
VLC media player 1.1.4 The Luggage (revision exported)
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