Is there any grub editors out there now? I tried to search synaptic and that new stupid software thing ubuntu just got, but I can't find a grub editor anywhere. FInding a grub editor used to be easy, but now it's damn hard to find ubuntu software.
View 4 RepliesI feel rather daft asking this but I can't find the option. I have gftp connected to a remote site and I want to edit a file. I click on the edit option and get an error that I must specify an editor in the options dialogue. I can't find the options dialogue can someone tell me where it is.
View 1 Replies View RelatedHey everyone, i am trying to install 10.10 on a netbook i have, and i did it all okay, but it would not boot up, so I want to re-format the hard drive, but the hard drive is not showing up on the partition editor (only thing that is showing is the usb i'm booting up off of)
I finally got it to install windows xp, but i really only want to put ubuntu on it (no need for windows on a net book)
Tried to create a data DVD the first time and another surprise. Very slow to write. On a dual boot system, it takes Windows 7 ten times less to do it. When i tried to folllow the ideeas from forums, i couldn't find Brasero in /apps/ with gconftool or gconf-editor. With Nautilus i get the same low speed.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI'm unable to find a decent hex editor for GNU/Linux -- let alone a really good one. I don't really care if it is GUI or console based, but it has to work properly, the curses-based ones that I've tried somehow manage to corrupt its own display by merely scrolling through the file being edited.
So, my question is, what is a good hex editor for GNU/Linux? If possible I'd gladly like to know both the name of a console based one and another GUI-based one.
where i can found gnome-appearance-properties because i would like to use effects on normal manualy each time i running my computer ? with bash i found this command : " gnome-appearance-properties -p effects " but after i blocked for add something after effects...i try on,enabled,normal etc nothing work certainly a tips
View 2 Replies View Relatedgrub editor program or graphic interface that's in a repository. i would prefer that to having to do say KGRUBeditor from source, plus i dont want to install the kde requirements for it.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI got ubuntu 10.04 lucid lynx along with windows (dual boot) and using Grub. On my computer, I have my C:/ (programs) and D:/ (data). I've never used my D:/ before that day that I've lost my windows partition on my grub menu. I usually use my D:/ with windows. The first time I used my D:/ to store data with linux, I lost my windows option in my grub menu. I'm not sure what I did wrong but I do want to restore my windows option in my grub menu.
After "fdisk -l",
I checked in /boot/grub and there is no menu.lst to modify. how I can get back my windows option in my grub menu ?
I've trawled the internet but can't seem to find the exact same issue, so I've made a new thread. So, I installed Ubuntu onto a 160gb drive. I have other drives in the system, but I disconnected them so that the system drive would be sda. Ubuntu installed perfectly with no issues whatsoever. I connected the other drives in the system, and again it booted up perfectly (although I can't remember whether the 160gb drive remained as sda or became sdd). Then I attached some extra drives temporarily to do some data shuffling.
This moved my system drive to become sdf. My computer booted fine multiple times like this, but when I was finished with the drives I rebooted and suddenly everything broke. For some reason my ubuntu installation showed up in the GRUB twice, and neither of them booted. So, I popped in the Live CD (which I'm using to type this post), and decided to update the grub. I chrooted into my system drive and ran update-grub, but it simply returned something like this:
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I updated yesterday and now when I start my laptop it goes in to grub rescue mode. I have booted from a 'live cd' and thought I could repair grub from there. In gparted however the partition with ubuntu (sda1) is seen as unknown file system, in terminal when I list the partition table it shows up as FAT16 type. When I try a grub-install it gives this error message:
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On windows I really only used Notepad++ as my text editor, it had two features that I loved.What I need to accomplish is what I would do with Notepad++ column editor.I could have like 100 lines, and place the cursor at a column, and goto edit>column editor, and I could insert an incrementing number. (I could also pad the incrementing number with 0s, this was GREAT for making batch files among other things.)So each line at that column had a number higher than the previous line.The other feature that I used sometimes was a search/replace with regex patterns.Does anyone know of an editor that has those features for linux? I am mostly after the column editor insert feature but if you know of one with both features that would rock.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI've got myself the curious situation where, when I boot the system, I can get grub to start, but it always drops to the prompt.
I can run:configfile /grub/menu.lst
and this brings up the menu with no problems, and from there I can boot the system to either linux or windows. What I don't understand is why it wont go to the menu in the first place?As far as I can tell, grub/Kubuntu got confused when installing, as each of the hd#,# settings in the menu.lst have needed tweaking to let the system boot. (e.g. windows is actually hd0, but the original install had it at hd2. Likewise linux is on hd1, but the menu.lst had it at hd0). I've happily tweaked these to make the system boot, but would appreciate any help in convincing grub to actually load the menu without me having to use the prompt.
How default editor can be changed in redhat linux to different editor.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to fix my booting problems on 10.04 by following this guide. Except the grub file is not in /etc/default. Grub is definitely installed (0.97 legacy) and the computer boots ok-ish so it must be somewhere.
View 2 Replies View Relatedi just know about this : Boot Info Script 0.55 dated February 15th, 2010
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To start im going to specify as many things as i can think of that may help this process.
1. My laptop came originally with Windows 7 on it.
2. I installed Lubuntu based off Ubuntu 10.10 i'm assuming the slight differences between Ubuntu and Lubuntu shouldn't make this to much trouble.
3. This was installed off of a flash drive.
4. Windows was working fine until the partition of Lubuntu.
5. My old windows files can still be accessed so i'm going to assume windows 7 was not partitioned over or deleted.
6. I'm running off of a Lenovo computer which i believe to have partitioned a section off for some of it's own features never looked into it or touched that partition
7.Currently GRUB gives me four different choices 2 being of Lubuntu connection and 2 being of some memtest thing that i have never seen before.
8. I can't think of how to copy this but when i type in sudo fdisk -l i get partitions from /dev/sda1 through /dev/sda7 every one filled. code...
how do i find out what grub is used in mint 9? grub or Grub 2
View 6 Replies View RelatedI primarily need to remove several listings from my boot menu. After many updates and upgrades the list is HUGE.I know you can edit the grub menu.lst file, but I don't have one.
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And, I did read the guide on removing entries from grub 2. The problem is, some of the kernels in the current grub menu are no longer in synaptic on this install. Currently I have WinXP, Ubuntu 8.10, and Ubuntu 9.10 installed. I want to leave 8.10 installed, but not have it available in the Grub menu. How can this be accomplished? Grub 2 seems quite obtuse compared to earlier versions where there was a simple menu file
I had Windoze 7 on my wife's laptop, it started running crappy so I install Ubuntu 9.10 via Wubi (so it is not a partitioned dual-boot). I did the latest update, which I think included a kernel update. When I rebooted and chose Ubuntu from the windows dual boot window, instead of loading the GRUB I see an error message flash:
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TRY hd0: NTFS no Wubi(something-or-other)
it flashed almost too fast for me to catch - it took about 10 reboots to figure out that much... and then it goes to a screen that says
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GNU GRUB version 1.97~beta4
sh:grub
I tried several different commands (you can prompt it to give you available commands by hitting TAB), but it said it couldn't detect a kernel. Also, before I updated, I had tried to install iTunes via these instructions. iTunes seemed to have installed fine, but I hadn't tried it yet.
My parent's hard disc is failing and I am trying to boot into single user mode to run fsck. If I try to enter through terminal with "sudo init 1" the screen goes black and the computer freezes. I tried to enter single user during start-up with ESC, but the machine still boots straight into a normal session. I was going to edit /boot/grub/menu.lst to for the machine to display the grub menu option but I do not seem to have a menu.lst under /boot/grub. Does anyone have any ideas as to where this file might be or an alternate way to enter single user mode?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a 320GB Hard Drive, divided into 4 partitions.
20GB Windows 7 Home Premium x64(NTFS)
20GB Mac OSX Leopard
20GB Ubuntu 9.10 x64 Root (Ext4)
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I had my HD partitioned with Win7 and 2 versions of Xubuntu (32 and 64 bit). and Grub as multiboot loader. I removed the 32 bit version and assigned the free space to the 64 bit version using the Gparted bootCD, but now Grub can't find any partition anymore at boottime. All I get is this message and prompt when I try to boot my computer: error: no such partition grub rescue. My Linux partition is supposed to be sda6. When using the 'ls' command I get quite few entries, from which one is (hd0,6), which is sda6 I suppose.I can list the contents of directories on (hd0,6).I've tried instrucions from this page, but many commands don't work, like 'linux', 'initrd' and 'boot'.I really don't want to loose my current OS's. Is there a way to recover fom this so I get the Grub boot menu with my Win7 and Xubuntu entries again?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI messed up my mbr by deleting my other drive which I guess had the MBR for both my OS (2 Windows 7's). So i installed Ubuntu in an attempt to fix it all hoping to get the GRUB. It then booted directly into Ubuntu.So I ran bootsect.exe tx the mbr and it said success.Still boots into Ubuntu directly without and grub.
I ran sudo update-grub
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-22-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.35-22-generic
Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin
done
I recently installed Ubuntu 11.04 on a clean hard drive. Everything went well and I ended up giving /home it's own partition. After a while I figured I would dual boot with windows 7 and my mbr got overwritten. Now after this happened I googles how to fix it and found the same answer almost everywhere. It had me go into terminal and run grub an find my partition and setup grub again. All of this was done off a livecd. The only problem was that my livecd didn't have the grub shell installed. Everytime I ran "sudo grub" it would say "sudo: grub: command not found" I tried to install it but it kept giving me errors and I only once actually got into grub, but it could not find my partition. Whenever I typed "find /boot/grub/stage1" it said directory does not exist. So I attempted to fix it my own way. I installed another version of ubuntu along Sid the first. This allowed me to triple boot between the two versions of ubuntu and windows 7. So I booted into my original ubuntu (11.04) and deleted the older version of ubuntu with gparted. I deleted the partition and restarted, but when I restarted I got an error saying that grub could not find the partition. I can boot into my original ubuntu through the ultimate boot cd but it is a round a bout way of doing it. Is there anyway I can set grub to search for ubuntu 11.04 on startup instead of the deleted version of ubuntu?
View 9 Replies View Relatedi have 500 GB SATA drive with windows 7 and Ubuntu 11.04 500 GB drive divided in 3 partitions on one partition thers is windows 7 and on 2nd Ubuntu now i'm installing a software it's asking where you want to load your Grub and i don't know in which partition my GRUB is. my question is is there any way to find out which parition got my Ubuntu GRUB?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI've been running a dual boot set-up with Win XP and Ubuntu 9.10. The old 40 gb drive was showing signs of impending failure, so I replaced it with a new 120 gb drive, after saving an image of the old setup. After restoring the image from the original drive to the new one, Windows boots fine from the GRUB menu, but Ubuntu doesn't. I briefly see the Ubuntu "circle" then the screen goes blank. If I hit any key, I get a console screen of error messages (I can provide details if needed).
I think the problem is caused by the fact that the restore process scaled the saved image to fit the new, larger drive, with the result that the Ubuntu partition doesn't actually start where GRUB expects to find it. I'd like to recover the Ubuntu installation, but if is too big a deal, I'll just wait until 10.4 is released and do a clean install.
I have a 9.10 ubuntu desktop on a tower (bought 2004) working fine, and wanted to add a 10.4 server on an additional partition. After install, I stated grub may be newly written, as the list of os was fine. After reboot I got "grub rescue>" I managed to get the system working again, and now I have a grub2 menu list stating correct entries. But when I select the server entry the boot fails telling "disk not found" (The UUID of the partition given is correct, and also shown when accessing the partition from the 9.10 desktop (this needs an additional authentification when mounting) grub shell command ls does not show the partition, all other tools (life-CD, working installation, gparted etc.) do show it normally, I cannot find any difference. The partition is on the beginning of the disk
View 3 Replies View Relatedi have a 250gb hdd and a 160 hdd. i installed wind0ws 7 on the 250 and then ubuntu 10.10 on the 160. In the past (8.04-10.04) after install ubuntu on boot grub would give me the option to go into ubuntu or windows, now ti doesnt give me that option and boots directly into ubuntu. I dont even think it has recognized that windows is there.
View 9 Replies View RelatedAfter installation of Ubuntu 10.10, grub loads and has the right menu list. However, Ubuntu doesn't load and I get an error message of :Gave up waiting for root device. (with a list of common problems)There is also:ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/1584598e-b8e5..... does not exist.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI successfully installed fedora 12 the other day, got it up and running fine. Yesterday I installed windows 7 on my second partition on the drive (dumbest thing ever, I know). What I forgot is that windows can't handle not being in control, and that it would replace my bootloader (grub). "No problem" I thought. I booted a live usb that had grub-install on it (which has worked for me in the past). The drive which needs grub on it is /dev/sda, sda1 being the partition with /boot on it.
So I do the following in the live usb:
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mkdir /media/fedora
mount /dev/sda1 /media/fedora
grub-install --root-directory=/media/fedora /dev/sda
But after a few seconds I get an error message saying that "stage1 not read correctly". When I go into the drive I can see that there is a file /media/fedora/boot/grub/stage1, and the device.map which grub creates appears to be correct (/dev/sda corresponds to hd0). Going into the grub terminal and running "root (hd0,0)" then "setup" gives a similar result (complains about not being able to find stage1).
On another forum someone mentioned tyring "depmod" before installing grub, but that didn't work for me.