Editor can't edit

[Vram]

On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 01:28 -0500, alex wrote:
> Oliver Grawert wrote:
> 
> >hi,
> >Am Montag, den 06.12.2004, 13:25 -0800 schrieb Bob Nielsen:
> >  
> >
> >>On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 08:17:17AM -0500, alex wrote:
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>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 :^)  ).
> >>    
> >>
> >you also could install my little helper tool:
> >http://www.grawert.net/software/startup-settings/
> >
> >:)
> >
> >ciao
> >	oli
> >  
> >
> 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.
> . 
> 

can you post 

ls -l /boot/grub/menu.lst


I would like to see the permissions on that file.

Ubuntu can edit it....

TIA

Vram


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