[ubuntu-in] Problem in booting ubuntu 10.04 lucid

[Neel Mehta]

In the ubuntu version 10.04, the grub2 is used. And in this version, the
/boot/boot/grub.cfg is automatically generated. You need to edit the files
in /etc/grub.d/.

Thanks and Regards,
Neel Mehta
Fourth year Undergraduate student,
Electrical Engineering,
IIT Bombay


On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 7:39 PM, suranjan jii <suranjan.suranjan at gmail.com>wrote:

> Namaskar.
> Pls tell me pls that how will i edit  /boot/grub/grub.cfg .
> You are writing that i have to pick the right entry in the file and then
> change  "quiet splash" to "i915.modeset=1".
> Where and what right entry should i pick.
> Pls i am very new with ubuntu and don't know much about it. Pls tell me
> step by step what i have to do ?
> waiting....
>
> suranjan
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Roshan Pius <roshanpiusthomas at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> To make the grub(bootloader) changes permanent, u just have to edit
>> the /boot/grub/grub.cfg file with whatever changes u want for booting.
>> In the file you will have entries like what u saw when u press the "e" in
>> the grub menu at bootup.
>> You will need to pick the right entry in the file and then change "quiet
>> splash" to "i915.modeset=1".
>>
>> Roshan Pius
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 6:13 PM, suranjan jii <suranjan.suranjan at gmail.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>> I have dual operating system. One is XP2 and other just i have
>>> installed ubuntu 10.04 lucid.
>>>
>>> When i choose XP to boot then it boot easily.
>>>
>>> When i choose or i wait for 10 seconds to boot from ubuntu 10.04 lucid
>>> then it doesnot boot. Screen becomes blank.
>>>
>>> Then one friend suggested to press "e" and do some change before
>>> choose any operating system. I did that.
>>>
>>> When i press "e" then i got---
>>>
>>> recordfail
>>> insmod ext2
>>> set root ='(hd0,5)'
>>> search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 918179ba-dec9-472d-bbfd-cf03c95d7f72\
>>> Linux/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-21-generic
>>> root=UUID=918179ba-dec9-472d-bbfd\-cf03c95d7f72 ro quiet splash
>>> initrd /boot /initrd
>>>
>>> Then i deleted "quiet splash"  and typed "i915.modeset=1". Then ubuntu
>>> booted. But i have to do this all the time.
>>>
>>> How can i make it permanent ? Means without pressing "e", just by
>>> choosing ubuntu it should boot. Sometimes by going through pressing
>>> "e" and deleting and typing even ubuntu is not booting in all well. It
>>> is problematic.
>>>
>>>
>>> Pls help...
>>>
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