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[alex]

Bob Nielsen wrote:

>On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 08:17:17AM -0500, alex wrote:
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>>I managed to make the grub changes by running  KNOPPIX  and using  its  
>>editor to make the  changes in UBUNTU's grub/menu.lst  and UBUNTU  now  
>>boots the way I wanted  it.......Wonderful!!!   I can now boot  two MS 
>>Windows,  four Linux 's but it has to be within the 2 seconds to make 
>>the selection.
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>You can increase the two seconds by changing the value of timeout on 
>menu.lst (of course you need to edit it to do that :^)  ).
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*:-{*    I.m able to edit ubuntu by running knoppix and using its editor 
to edit ubunto.  I have some  aliases in knoppix
that let me access and edit other Linuxes and Windows that are 
installed..  This is the only way I'm abke to edit anything in ubuntu.  
My ubuntu  has a lot of locked files which I can't edit from ubuntu but 
I can edit any of them from knoppix..  Those aliases are very useful, 
especially if you have multiple operating systems in your computer.

I purposely set the timeout  in  ubuntu's  menu.lst  to 2 seconds and 
made Windows XP   the  autoboot default because. I have some  
great-grand  kids (3 to 6 yrs) who like to play with my computer when 
they visit  so if they  turn  on the computer, they won't have time to 
figure out the boot menu.  Sometimes, even I miss. but I want to keep 
that 2 second timeout.

alex, the OF 

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