Editing /boot/grub/menu.lst

[Karl Larsen]

elmo wrote:
> My GRUB boot menu lists Windows XP first with an autoboot in 10 seconds 
> and three versions of UBUNTU in the remainder of the menu.  This is 
> because I have great-grandchildren who bring their game CDs with them 
> when they visit and I wanted Windows XP to autoboot so they can use 
> their CDs without needing to figure out what to select so they can use 
> their game CDs.
>
> What I did was edit the default UBUNTU /boot/grub/menu.lst by copying 
> and dropping the menu items to rearrange their order on the boot menu.
>
> I had to change the permissions for menu.lst so that I could save the 
> changes I made, then after the changes were saved, I didn't bother to 
> returned the permissions back to its original form. So far, no problem.
>
> I take over occasionally and select one of the UBUNTU to let them 
> experience gaming in a different operating system in the hope they'll 
> look forward to choosing UBUNTU in the boot menu.
>
> Comments ?
>
> elmo
>
>
>
>   
    The file menu.lst is normally a root file. This is to protect it 
from children :-)

You can change it back to root in a terminal do $ sudo chown root 
/boot/grub/menu.lst and that will do it. In the future you can edit the 
file with gedit if you start that with $ sudo gedit.

Karl


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