<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 9:37 AM, mischa falkenburg <<a href="mailto:because_productions@myfairpoint.net">because_productions@myfairpoint.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div><div></div><div class="h5">Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 2010-11-07 at 07:28 -0500, mischa falkenburg wrote: > >> Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> >>> On Sat, 2010-11-06 at 09:06 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >>> >>> >>>> PS: >>>> >>>> For GRUB there should be a line >>>> >>>> timeout 8 >>>> >>>> and for GRUB2 there should be the lines >>>> >>>> if [ ${recordfail} = 1 ]; then >>>> set timeout=-1 >>>> else >>>> set timeout=10 >>>> fi >>>> >>>> or similar. >>>> >>>> AFAIK the numbers for the timeouts are seconds. >>>> >>>> Hth, >>>> >>>> Ralf >>>> >>>> >>> PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPS, pardon: >>> >>> You might use GRUB2 and you perhaps has got an issue regarding to a >>> recordfail. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> HI Ralf, thanks for your many responses. >> >> As you can see from what I've written Ronan, there may be more going on >> here rather than not seeing anything (initially). >> Did the install of UbuStu 10.04 happen or not? >> >> Thoughts? >> >> Mischa >> > > With a live cd or from the Linux that can be booted copy > > /boot/grub/menu.lst > > or > > /boot/grub/menu.cfg > > to an email to the list. I guess just the menu entries are missing. > > Take a look at all partitions. If there are folders /boot on some > partitions there should be the kernels. For any kernel there has to be > an entry in /boot/grub/menu.lst, for /boot/grub/menu.cfg it can be a > little bit complicated. > > > > </div></div>(copying the info from ...grub isn't "behaving", but just from my looking at .../menu.lst, all that's listed are two different 8.04 LTS kernels: 2.6.24-28-generic & 2.6.24-19-generic Nothing in the file about 10.04..., I also don't see a file for .../menu.cfg , is that supposed to be in the Grub folder? Mischa <div><div></div><div class="h5"> -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> i think it would have been a good idea to get the older install (8.04) up to GRUB2, then install the 10.04 (with GRUB2). i would try reading over the GRUB2 wiki page <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2</a> , also maybe this <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoveringUbuntuAfterInstallingWindows">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoveringUbuntuAfterInstallingWindows</a> <div> </div><div>i have used <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><a href="http://gag.sourceforge.net/">http://gag.sourceforge.net/</a> in the past, you could try it or another 3rd party bootloader and see if you can find your OS's... good luck <div> -- MH <a href="http://www.myspace.com/mikeholstein">http://www.myspace.com/mikeholstein</a> <a href="http://opensourcemusician.libsyn.com/">http://opensourcemusician.libsyn.com/</a> </div></div>