[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 64 bit

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On 2 March 2010 01:57, A J Binnie <gus.binnie at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> I joined this list a couple of weeks ago, and tonight I've had my first
> reason to post something. Been using Ubuntu on and off since 6.06 and with
> every release I'm getting closer to making it my main OS (I dual-boot with
> Windows Vista at the moment, which is my main reason for finally wanting to
> ditch Windows...)
>
> Until now I've always used 32-bit versions of Ubuntu and was happily
> running 9.10 on this machine. Tonight, though, I decided to do a fresh
> install and go with the 64-bit version. I was hitherto unaware that my
> machine would support it, but that turned out not to be the case.
>
> What's annoying me is that I have a list of kernels that appear on the GRUB
> menu that I no longer have installed. Indeed, when I try to boot into any of
> them, the boot process stops. I deleted all the partitions that Ubuntu
> originally resided on and recreated them all from scratch, so I can only
> assume that the grub list that comes up is stored in the MBR, which should,
> in theory, be on my main windows partition.
>
> Back in the old days I was able to edit /boot/grub/menu.lst or something
> similar... where are the grub configuration files kept these days? There
> seems to be quite a change in 9.10.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Gus
>
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i believe as of 9.10 the default bootlader is now grub2 instead of grub.
grub2 has a different menu setup and more features.  There is still a menu
file. /boot/grub/grub.conf
You should not edit this by hand though. more info here
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1195275

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