no menu.lst, no menu to select at booting

[Nils Kassube]

Buggs Bunny wrote:
> However, I have installed Ubuntu LTS 10.04, but I am amazed to see
> that there is no option to select from (while booting)....might be
> this is the default behavior, though I have only Ubuntu
> installed...Well, but when I tried at google to show the menu while
> booting, it showed me to uncomment the option:
> 
> #hidemenu
> 
> from the /boot/grub/menu.lst file...Well, but in my case the file
> 'menu.lst' is not there! Amazed to see it.

Ubuntu 10.04 uses grub2 as default which has no menu.lst. You should 
edit /etc/defaults/grub instead and then run the command update-grub. 
See <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2> for all the details.


Nils