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Re: How to change grub bootloader order
de mike 06/25/2006 11:22
"Mark Warner" <mhwarner.inhibitions@insightbb.com> wrote in
news:4g7hpaF1m3rc0U1@individual.net:
>
> I wasn't quite truthful in my post to mike; I really didn't have him
> edit the menu.lst file with the command line. What I did do was have him
> use the command line to go root (sudo), open a program (gedit), and open
> a file with that program (/etc/boot/grub/menu.lst). Those three actions
> took one short command. From that point on, he was using a GUI program
> (gedit is a text editing program similar to notepad).
>
Thanks for your instructions, Mark, gedit is indeed a nice app.
However my first mistake was to type menu.first, instead of menu.list.
Gedit helpfully created it, but there was nowt there.
But searcung on menu found menu.lst, but in
/boot/grub, not /etc/boot, but after that all was as you said and I got
windows priority as I wanted.
Now the bad news - I just can't leave well enough alone :-((
I tried gag as suggested by duddits, and it looked nice, but wouldn't boot
linux - in the faq it said lilo was needed. So I thought sod this for a
game of soldiers and uninstalled it, which was supposed to leave everything
as before....
but it didn't, and now I boot straight into windows, I guess it's messed up
my MBR, or summat.
The disc I used to install ubuntu is long gone, so I can't reinstall that.
I'm not too bothered, ubuntu was just a trial, so I don't think I'll reload
it, it was painfully slow, but steady.
I don't know if you have any suggestions for a linux distro, I can't burn
DVDs, so I'd like a CD size D/L, but the big names seem to suggest about 5
CDs. (HTF can _anything_ take that much space?)
Anyhow, ther we are, thanks for your instructions, which I've saved for the
next linux attempt
mike