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Old 12-21-2008, 03:48 PM   #1
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How to edit initial (boot) page

I am "dual booting but have way too many options on the initial screen when booting to either windows or Ubuntu.

How do I edit this page?
 
Old 12-21-2008, 03:52 PM   #2
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Is it LILO or GRUB? And which distro are you on?

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Is it LILO or GRUB? And which distro are you on?

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Grubb install page & UBUNTU 8.10
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Old 12-21-2008, 03:56 PM   #4
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Can you post up /boot/grub/grub.conf and let us know what you want to remove.
 
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Old 12-21-2008, 04:00 PM   #6
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you mean grub config file ?
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I would like to make the screen as simple as possible
 
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you mean grub config file ?
I think so
 
Old 12-21-2008, 06:22 PM   #9
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As per post #4, could you post up grub.conf and let us know what you would like to remove from there.
 
  


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