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Right way to edit /boot/grub/menu.lst ?
Hello,
I have been busy writing stuff about a few debian-based distros and Linux in general for newbies, and now I have this question: Is it all right to edit boot/grub/menu.lst in this way? I needed to have WindowsXp boot first and appear first on the menu at boot time (I installed Ubuntu on a laptop which is shared among several people and on which WindozeXP was pre-installed). I simply cut the lines referring to WinXp and added by clever Ubuntu, and pasted them just above those eferrinfg to Ubuntu, and I adapted the title. Here's part of the edited file: ## ## End Default Options ## title Microsoft Windows XP Professional root (hd0,0) savedefault makeactive chainloader +1 # This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian # ones. title Other operating system: Linux Ubuntu title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.12-9-386 root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-9-386 root=/dev/hda2 ro quiet splash initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.12-9-386 savedefault boot title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.12-9-386 (recovery mode) root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-9-386 root=/dev/hda2 ro single initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.12-9-386 boot title Ubuntu, memtest86+ root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin boot ### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST I read somewhere you oughtn't to move lines but you should simply write defaut 0 or 1 according to where Windows stands in the file. What do you say? Many thanks in advance! |
Do it either way. No harm done whatsover.
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no change when I edited menu.lst
I believe I edited menu.lst the same way and there was no change when I rebooted. What is the problem? I went to the terminal and entered sudo getit /boot/grub/menu.lst and then my password.
Jim I used this method with of course dates are different on my system. ## ## End Default Options ## title Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition root (hd0,0) savedefault makeactive chainloader +1 # This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian # ones. title Other operating system: Linux Ubuntu title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.12-9-386 root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-9-386 root=/dev/hda2 ro quiet splash initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.12-9-386 savedefault boot title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.12-9-386 (recovery mode) root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-9-386 root=/dev/hda2 ro single initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.12-9-386 boot title Ubuntu, memtest86+ root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin boot ### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST |
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