Editor can't edit

[alex]

Vram wrote:

>On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 01:28 -0500, alex wrote:
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>>Oliver Grawert wrote:
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>>>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.
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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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>>>you also could install my little helper tool:
>>>http://www.grawert.net/software/startup-settings/
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>>>:)
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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.
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>>The 2 second boot timeout out is what I wanted.
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>can you post 
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>ls -l /boot/grub/menu.lst
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>I would like to see the permissions on that file.
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>Ubuntu can edit it....
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>TIA
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>Vram
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No, ubuntu's editors can't touch it......that's what started my rant.  I 
had to run KNOPPIX and use
its editor .  My ubuntu seems to have inordinate number of locked files 
and the only way I can get
into them is by running KNOPPIX and  using some aliases that I created 
to access other operating
systems .  Then, it's like being in that other system even though I'm 
still in KNOPPIX and I can use
KNOPPIX's editor to make changes im ubuntu,  locked file or not.

I'll see if I can copy that    ls -l menu.lst     to another system so I 
can send it but right now, snow removal
has a priority..







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