Ubuntu Installation :: Can't Change Grub Order After Update To 11.04
Jun 13, 2011
I have a dual boot system w7 and ubunutu. When i had version 10.10 (i think) everything was working fine, the grub would select w7 as boot preference. I have, however just updated to 11.04 and i cant get the grub to change its order. I have tried using startupmanager and selecting the second to last one, as per tips and i have also tried all the options. I have also tried editing the grub file, i think its /etc/default/grub. i have also tried grub-customizer but again, this doesnt work.
I have noticed however that the options shown arent the same as the options when i boot my system. Im not sure whether i have got two GRUBS installed or something like that. I have also tried using boot-repair, however this just states that there is no GRUB installed, however as i mentioned, i can read the grub, and so can the programs.
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Jun 18, 2011
Just installed 11.04 and do not know how to change the boot order in the new grub.
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Aug 15, 2011
I have ubuntu 11.04 and windows vista installed on my pc. I have already set windows vista as my default os, but I'd like to put it at the top of the boot menu (currently it's in 4th).
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May 6, 2010
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.
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Jul 13, 2010
I want to change the default boot from Ubuntu to windows xp. What file do I need to edit to make that change? In other distros the file is grub.lst but I can not locate that file name in Ubuntu.
I can find the file /boot/grub/grub.cfg that looks like what I need but has a warning "DO NOT EDIT",
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Mar 18, 2011
I am trying to change the default gnu grub boot order to first go to windows 7. I entered gksudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst and it opened up the file but the file was blank.It didn't show me the 5 or 6 possible choices.
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Aug 4, 2010
I just installed Ubuntu 10.04 onto my toshiba C655 iCeleron 900 2.20ghz 1GB RAM. I have win7 and I have a 4GB swap partition. How Do I change the Boot order in Grub? I saw instructions somewhere else to type sudo, etc in the command line and was getting access denies...
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May 12, 2011
I wanna change the boot order, right now Linux starts first, and I wanna configure GRUB to make Windows start first, how can I do this?
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Nov 29, 2010
i am trying to change the boot order on the GRUB menu so that the countdown automatically starts on an older kernel. From what i can see all the solutions on the web want me to edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst file. The problem is that i don't have one. Someone also mentioned that if i don't have a menu.lst file then i should look for the grub.conf file. I don't have on of those either. The closest thing in /boot/grub is grub.cfg but that looks nothing like the descriptions i have heard of /boot/grub/menu.lst file
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Apr 1, 2010
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?
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Jul 31, 2010
I'm trying to change the boot order in grub (menu.lst) but does not working.
My menu.lst:
# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Qua Jul 28 22:45:21 BRT 2010
# THIS FILE WILL BE PARTIALLY OVERWRITTEN by perl-Bootloader
# Configure custom boot parameters for updated kernels in /etc/sysconfig/bootloader
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Feb 13, 2010
I am a linux noob and that is the reason I want to boot my windows xp by default. Now kubuntu boots first. I've googled how to do this but the topics of other people with the same 'problem' were old or maybe incorrect. Because the official GRUB Ubuntu wiki says you should not change the /boot/grub/grub.cfg file manually. The first line on the .cfg file is also a warning: Do not edit this file. So it continued looking for a proper way to change the boot order. Then I found something about etc/grub.d and also etc/default/grub. The problem is I don't understand how to change the boot order using this.
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Feb 3, 2010
I've seen many, many different solutions for how to change the GRUB boot order. Search no more. This is by far the easiest, safest way to do that.
Open your terminal and type in the following:
sudo apt-get install startupmanager
When that is done go to your control panel and you'll have a new icon that says Startup Manager. Every thing you'll need work with your GRUB menu.
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Mar 3, 2009
I recently installed a 64-bit version of centOS 5 alongside a 32-bit version, which I use. Turns out the 64-bit version absolutely will not boot and I'm stuck with it as my default boot option. Since the grub being used resides on the 64-bit half, I cant edit the menu file but I know theres a way to do this without it, through grub itself. I have about 29 render nodes now with this problem, and whenever they need to be rebooted I have to hook a monitor up to each one and hold its hand through the boot process. How to change the grub menu through grub itself, basically just change the default boot option and then have it stay that way?
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Apr 7, 2010
I use dual OS, n i have a problem when i want to set boot order. Can i change boot order? or can i make a priority for my OS?
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Feb 16, 2011
Why do the Ubuntu 10.10 and Linux Mint 10 installers indicate that grub update follows grub install? I would have thought that install should follow update.
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Apr 13, 2010
I am dual booting win7 and Ubuntu 9.10 with wubi.
-If I don't select ubuntu, it will boot into win7.
I want to change it so I can go into ubuntu after 30SEC so I don't have to always select it.
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Sep 18, 2010
I have two questions:
1. I had Win XP, I've installed Ubuntu on another Partition, now Ubuntu starts first, can I change XP to be the first one to load ? And how to do it ?
2. When I have to choose from 2 installed systems on the screen I see, Ubuntu, Testmem and Windows XP, can I rename Windows XP title to something else ? And how to do it ?
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Nov 29, 2010
Using StartupManager (as Quackers had suggested) I do indeed have Windows as my default boot, although it appears at the bottom of the menu. See Dilemma 1 below for that detail.
Dilemma 1:Grub2 has set up the boot menu so that Windows is the last item on the menu. This is because the Menuitem entries for the Ubuntu kernels are generated by script 10_linux, while the Windows Menuitem entry is generated by script 30_os-prober. Of course, in generating /boot/grub/grub.cfg, the 10_linux script is executed before 30_os-prober, dictating the order of their appearance on the menu.
I'd like to see Windows as the top menu item. Under grub, I would edit /boot/grub/menu.lst, pull the Windows menu item out of the "Automagical" section and voila! It stays on top no matter how many times I upgrade the kernel. While I could possibly do the same with /boot/grub/grub.cfg (see thread "how can I change the order of the boot menu?" for the suggestion) we should all know by now that the next time I update the kernel, my changes will all go away, because we are not supposed to edit that file by hand.
Dilemma 2: As I download and install kernel updates, all the old kernels still show up on my boot menu. My concern is that eventually the sheer number of Linux kernels will render the boot menu unreadable. This is especially of concern if I cannot get Windows to the top of the boot menu. Under grub, I used to edit the menu.lst and comment out the listing of any kernels more than 2 versions old. Now, how do I arrange this omission? A manual edit of 10_linux will be acceptable, provided it still displays the 2 or 3 most recent Linux kernels and their corresponding memtests.
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Feb 5, 2011
I am using windows 7 ubuntu 10.10 dul booting. I want to change the booting order, in the old ubuntu version I could do this in /boot/grub/menu.lst.?
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Apr 12, 2011
I am installing Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS on a new server that has 21 hard drives. My OS/boot drive is plugged into a SATA port on the motherboard, and the other 20 drives are plugged into cheap 4 port SATA adapter cards plugged into the PCIe slots on the motherboard.
When I first get to the part of the installer where I set up partitions and such, it is enumerating my disks in a somewhat weird order. The first 4 disks sda, sdb, sdc and sdd are disks connected to one of the SATA controllers, then sde is my smaller OS disk. Is there any way to force the small OS disk to be sda before I continue setting up my RAID? It's not a huge deal, but I'd like to have the system drive be sda, as it is in all my other systems. This is the 3rd system I've built like this, but it's the first time I've run into this issue (newer motherboard than the last one).
If possible I'd like to use the menu system in the installer to setup the RAID, as typing all those disk names manually into an mdadm config manually is going to be a huge pain. That precludes me from just unplugging the extra drives until after I get the base OS installed and working.
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Aug 8, 2011
I am trying to upgrade my system from 7.04 to a current version. I now face the known problem that my machine tries to download everything from archives.ubuntu.com although it has all been moved to old-releases."If you have this problem, you could change your /etc/host file to point archive.ubuntu.com to old-releases. Do this by running host old-releases.
ubuntu.com | grep address | awk '{print $NF" archive.ubuntu.com"}' | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts."
I have tried typing that information into the command line, with no success. I opened the /etc/hosts file in emacs (using sudo) but did not see an obvious place to impliment the fix.
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Jan 31, 2010
I am upgrading a system to have encrypted disks, it's a two disk system, so I want the BIOS to look at /dev/hdb first to unlock it, then it should reboot, see that isn't a system disk and try to boot /dev/hda. Then that gets unlocked, and the system boots. After unlocking hdb I get a Grub error 17. I can't edit Grub to look at hda as on normal boot it hasn't been unlocked yet, so it can't see the file system at that point. I reformatted an old XP disk as hdb, and it worked fine, but I'd rather not install windows every time, just to reformat it as ext3. Is there a simple way of clearing the boot sector of hdb?
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Sep 21, 2010
I have a new machine arriving tomorrow and plan on installing ubuntu 10.04 x64 and windows 7 professional. I've only ever had a single HDD before, but now I have 2 * 640GB drives.Does it matter what OS I install first?Will I have to change anything relating to the HDDs boot order in the BIOS?I only got 2 HDDs so in the event of needing to reinstall one of the OS's they're on completely different drives. Also, in the eventuality I need to reinstall one of the OSs is it simply a normal reinstall procedure, or because they're on two seperate drives will I need to do anything different?
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Mar 11, 2010
I have an old Dell Dimension 4500 that, until recently, had 2 hard drives. One drive is running Xubuntu Koala and the other was running XP. I had set up Xubuntu to run LVM.
After needing XP again for a small project I tried reinstalling XP, got disk errors, took the drive out to just have Xubuntu, and now when I boot I get "Error loading operating system".
I have tried restoring GRUB from a Live CD with no help. Everyplace I look on the net talks about restoring GRUB after installing Windows on another drive. I'm trying to get GRUB working again after removing the XP drive.
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Dec 22, 2010
The first is I seem to have 3 GRUB installs. So whilst I update the one from my live session, the change does not appear in the boot up menu. I had installed 10.10 from a CD into a different partition (sda6), but that will not boot, so I have just deleted this and done another grub install and update. The kernel I am using has just been updated from 10.04 to 10.10 too, and it is this that I use and the Grub I have been working on (sda5).
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Dec 20, 2008
I'm using Debian 4.0 Etch (AMD64) with some programs from the testing area. It was installed on a IDE hard disk, and the troubles started when I changed the disk to a SATA one.My system had two hard disks (hda and hdb) and two optical drives (hdc and hdd).Now, the hard drives are sda and hda, and the optical drives remains as hdc and hdd.After the disk change, it didn't work because all references in menu.lst were still pointing at hda. I changed to sda and everything works fine... until next kernel update.Every time the kernel is updated, grub changes all references to hda, so Linux don't boot until I edit menu.lst. I've also changed /boot/grub/device.map, but it doesn't work.
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Apr 7, 2010
after doing an upgrade to 10.4 and updating grub I get this message. how do I address this
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Mar 4, 2011
I have 2 hard disks. sda,sdb
In sda, I have 4 partitions, and I have windows 7 in one of the extended partitions [not in the primary partition].
In sdb, I have 3 partitions. 2 for storage, and 1 10GB drive for Ubuntu. Again, Ubuntu is not of a primary partition.
I had ubuntu 10.04 running on that for a long time. However, I wanted to reinstall ubuntu and use 10.10.This is what I did EXACTLY:Booted from Ubuntu install CD
Chose advanced istall
Selected sdb3 for Ubuntu
I installed GRUB2 on the SAME partition as Ubuntu aka sdb3 Installed then rebooted
I can boot into Ubuntu fine, but whenever I select Windows 7 bootloader from the GRUB menu, the screen goes black, and my PC reboots.
Boot Info:
Code:
Boot Info Script 0.55 dated February 15th, 2010 [code]....
ls: reading directory sda6/: Input/output error
I have tried the testdisk/update-grub method, but it didn't work.
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Jun 15, 2011
Dual booting Windows 7 and Fedora 15. What I would like to know is if I can change the boot order to boot Windows 7 first and Fedora 15 as other or second.
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