my computer have windows 7 and also a ubuntu in it (i started with version 10.04). i've just updated my ubuntu and i found that the list in the grub menu got longer by 2.and i feel its a long list....
so how do i shorten the list... i'll be ok if i just have the latest Linux and its recovery mode. than memtest86 and the other and last Windows 7... i dont need the old ubuntu in the list.... its redundant.... i have startup-manager installed but does not do what i wanted...
I installed xubuntu8.04 on my laptop(no other system),but when i started the system,there came out a grub and showed "press ESC to enter the menu"
I think this is a waste of time since i have only xubuntu on my lap, why do not just get in directly? why need a grub?i do not need so can i do something to shorten the start time? ( i know the menu is revovery option) by the way i can not mount my usb hard disk, the error shows:
When working on a rails app I like to open all of my files through the command line like so CD my_app gedit app/views/user/show.HTML.erb Is there a way that I could shorten this so that I could just write something like gedit user_views/show.HTML.erb
I would like the console to stay in the main directory, I just don't like having to type out app/controller/user_controler.rb every time I want to open the user controller. I know that I could just open the file with my mouse, but I feel like moving from keyboard to mouse breaks my focus a little bit. When I can just tap away at the keyboard it seems like I have a more smooth workflow.
so this is my favourite audio format (please kindly refrain from dissuading me to use it , it is not my question) and it worked fine up to karmic but i spent time today it seems okbut then when i run
If i am using a terminal window (shell) and I am on a deep point of a folder tree it becomes difficult to read what i write, as well as the entire content of the window.Is there a way to shorten the name of the current path in a shell / terminal?I know that aliases can be used for commands, does it exist anything similar for paths?
Notifications that popup in Ubuntu (e.g., for downloading items in firefox or Network configuration stuff) display a rectangular black box in the upper right corner of my Desktop. It often covers up items I need to access like logout items or links to my Account etc in a webpage I'm in. I often find myself having to wait for the Ubuntu dialog box to disappear before I can access whatever it is covering up.Is there a way to make these dialog boxes appear in the LOWER right corner instead? Also is there a way to shorten the amount of time that these notifications display before disappearing?
i have a bunch of shorten files i want to play from the command line and ffplay will play them one at a time but i want to play them one after the other (the whole album)does not work i must have forgotten something as it plays one track then stops.
I had ubuntu 9.10. I installed windows 7 on partition C: that had windows vista before, and as usual the grub of my ubuntu was wiped out, I reinstalled the grub again and every thing became fine BUT now in the grub list there is vista, not windows 7, when i choose vista it says there is no device!? How to add win7 to the grub list.
I'm using HP Pavilion dv2108tx I have ubuntu and Win7 dual boot. The problem is every time I change setting to the BIOS there will be a new list of ubuntu boot came up and now I scroll trough the whole list. Is there anyway to edit GURB boot list.
I have been using Ubuntu for a few days and it keeps on surprising me: This morning when I turned my pc on instead of displaying list of available OS versions GRUB just prints out "[ Minimal BASH-like line...." and console with prefix "sh:grub>". Why is the list gone and how can I get it back?
With Ubuntu 10.04 im having trouble viewing the boot menu.Where would I find that? Also ,without asking the forum this question, where would I find that info?
I installed The latest and greatest Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) and everything is clicking along just fine except one annoying feature that I am unable to get my finger on.I have quite a list of choices at bootup. I updated a couple version of the kernel and there is this memtest thing...twice... Then my family also uses windows 7 so that is the default at the bottom of the list set to boot after 3 seconds to keep the nagging to a minimum.
I would like to know the cleanest and safest way to have the list only show the current kernel option and the windows 7 option if this is even advised. Would it be best to have a backup (Previous kernel) in the list? *just in case* Is it safe to seek out the old kernel by version number and uninstall? Will this remove the entries in the list? Is editing the list and leaving other options installed wise? Is there a gui grub2 configuration tool with these advanced options? I have StartUp-Manager, but there is no options to change the list.
Im looking for the best/safest option to get this done because I now see another kernel update image in the update manager and it is going to increase the size of my list once I find the time to update. Im a bit green and scared I will ruin a good thing here. Everything is working perfectly so far and I realize one click and it could all be over.
I have Ubuntu 8.04 (32-bits) installed on /dev/sda and Ubuntu 10.04 (64-bits) installed on /dev/sdc (this is an update from 8.04 64-bits originally installed on /dev/sdc). There is a grub on each of these two disks. Both are the old grub (prior to version 2). Here is the top kernel listing from /dev/sda:
When you boot up Ubuntu, you are presented with the login screen, with a list of users that can access the machine. I want to be able to only show certain users in that list, and hide others.
# Boot Info Script 0.55 dated February 15th, 2010 ============================= Boot Info Summary: ============================== => Grub 2 is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks on the same drive in #
I used grub customizer to delete the extra ubuntu entries on the grub after an update but when i restarted what was left was just windows and mac. Is there any way to put it back?
Would like to try multi-boot different distros other than the Ubuntu flavors, they must use grub boot loader automatically. I cant find any list on the web? I don't want to edit menu.list.
I have a vista/ubuntu 9.10 duel boot laptop. Last week the screen was broken so it went back to the manufacture. Before that I rename the /etc/grub.d/10_linux file and ran grub-update so that Grub will only show windows boot menu (in case it confuses the repairman) now I have the laptop back and I am eating my own medicine.how to restore my ubuntu boot menus? I can now only boot into windows, although it seems like I can go to my ubuntu partition and change back my grub.cfg (which I did not backup!)but I can't remember the menuentry details.Is there any way, other than manually change my grub.cfg, so that I can boot into ubuntu again?
How do you change the order of the list? I have Xubuntu 9.10 installed on a 5 gig partition. I only use it for Skype as the mic does not work in 10.04 at the moment for me.Anyway, I would like 10.04 to default to the top of the list. How do I change the order when grub loads.
I am currently running 9.10 ubuntu (gnome). I have a dual core intel chip at 3.00 ghz. My mobo is an ASUS P5ND2-SLI. My mobo will support up to 8gb of ram. Now, as we all know, 32-bit os/kernel will only support like 3.2gb, and 64-bit like 4gb. I'd like to install a pae kernel so I can get the most from my mobo, but honestly, I don't have a clue where to start looking for a pae kernel. I'd like to be able to select it from the list that already appears after the grub loads, and if I like it, be able to remove the rest from the list, or just make it default.
Question, in CPU-G, it says my architecture is i686. I don't know if that's the os/distro, or the kernel itself. it also lists the GCC version as 4.4.1 and Xorg as 1.6.4. my current kernel is Linux 2.6.31-22-generic. Again, I'm trying to find a pae kernel, but I don't know if my os/distro will make a difference, if the architecture is the kernel or os itself. I am still fairly new to ubuntu, and I must say, I've made the switch completely from windows.. which blows...
Firstly, I installed my Windows 7 on sda2; then, I installed Ubuntu 10.04 on sda1. But the computer directly get into Ubuntu without listing the grub list. How to get the Grub list back and make sure the Widows 7 is on the list?
I just installed Kubuntu 10.04 dual booted with Windows XP Home. It worked OK until I tried to reboot. Then, when the GRUB boot list came up, there was no response to the keyboard cursors or other keys, so I was unable to select any OS other than the default. Right now, I can't access Windows at all.
Any solution to this? One person suggested enabling USB in BIOS, but I found nothing relevant there. Another suggested I use a PS2 keyboard, which I did, but no change...same problem.
If I can't get a solution to that, how do I change the GRUB configuration to make Windows the default? 10.04 doesn't have the same kind of GRUB boot config file that I recall using the last time I worked with Kubuntu, way back around version 6 0r 8.
I have recently (today) installed Debian on a logical partition of my master hard disk, but when booting it will just list Debian or Debian recovery not listing windows at all. I know there may be some that will think that is a good thing but I do need access to windows.
I had a root about and found this thread which I thought might solve the problem as it is similar:
viewtopic.php?f=17&t=63601
But when I got to the part where I entered the command su -c "nano /boot/grub/grub.cfg" the terminal prompt changed to a > and I felt a little unsure of what I was doing as I would have prefered to have opened the grub.cfg file as a text file, as it is I recieved a syntax error.
As you can probably tell Linux to me appears to be a bit of a black art, but I am enthusiastic none the less. I will list the output of the terminal window so that you may see the steps I have taken.
anthony@Debian:~$ su -c "grub-mkconfig" Password: Generating grub.cfg ... # # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE #
I tried looking this up. It seems that in Ubuntu, you need to edit /boot/grub/menu.lst. I tried that, and the file is not present in Debian "Squeeze". (Just trying it out on a different PC, In case you are confused by my other thread regarding Lenny) So what do I need to do to change the default OS to boot?
