small problem with 10.04 -> 12.04 upgrade

[william drescher]

On 8/28/2012 3:57 PM, Colin Law wrote:
> On 28 August 2012 19:35, william drescher <william at techservsys.com> wrote:
>> On 8/28/2012 8:59 AM, Colin Law wrote:
>>>
>>> On 28 August 2012 13:44, william drescher <william at techservsys.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 8/27/2012 2:43 PM, Thufir wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> william drescher <william <at> TechServSys.com> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>> What went wrong and can I fix it ?
>>>>>> How ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> bill
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I could be wrong, but I think you just have a small grub config
>>>>> "problem",
>>>>> I
>>>>> wouldn't even call it that.  Grub is seeing two kernels and asking which
>>>>> one you
>>>>> want to use.  I think.
>>>>>
>>>>> That's normal when there are multiple kernels.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -Thufir
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Not being a grub maven (or even a newbie) how do I tell grub only to use
>>>> 12.04 ?
>>>
>>>
>>> Is the one that automatically boots if you leave it a few seconds the
>>> right one or do you have to manually select one lower down?
>>>
>>> Colin
>>>
>>
>> The correct one boots.
>
> In that case all you need to do is to tell it not to bother waiting
> for you to decide which one you want.  If you have a look at
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2 you will find lots of useful
> information.  You need to edit /etc/default/grub but you need to do it
> as root so in a terminal run
>
> gksu gedit /etc/default/grub
>
> Personally I like to have the menu appear for just a couple of seconds
> so that it is easy to catch (by hitting down arrow for example) so I
> change GRUB_TIMEOUT to 2 or 3, then when you boot it will show the
> menu but then quickly boot if you do nothing.  If you set it to 0 then
> it will not wait at all, which may be what you want.  Having saved the
> file then run
>
> sudo update-grub
>
> which reads the edited file and sets up the system stuff to do what
> you want.  That's it (hopefully).
>
> Colin
>
Thanks

bill