Editor can't edit

[alex]

Oliver Grawert wrote:

>hi,
>Am Montag, den 06.12.2004, 13:25 -0800 schrieb Bob Nielsen:
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>>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.
>>>      
>>>
>>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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>you also could install my little helper tool:
>http://www.grawert.net/software/startup-settings/
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>:)
>
>ciao
>	oli
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>
Thanks, but it seems that I probably didn't describe my problem 
properly.   It's not that I can't boot ubuntu properly.-----I did edit 
UBUNTU's  menu.lst to give me the boot menu that I wanted but  I  had to 
run KNOPPIX and use its editor to make the changes in UBUNTU's  
/boot/grub/menu.lst.     UBUNTU's editor could not edit anything in 
UBUNTU----too many read only files.------but KNOPPIX's  editors can edit 
UBUNTU's read only files.

The 2 second boot timeout out is what I wanted.
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