[xubuntu-users] Grub - How to Remove Entries from Boot Menu

[kelly]

On Tue, 27 Oct 2015 15:06:10 -0400
Rog <linux.rog at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 10/26/2015 12:53 PM, Hartmut Haase wrote:
> > Hi Roger,
> >> The extra entries were also there before upgrading.
> > grub normally does not anything that is not there. Is on /dev/sda1
> > something that looks like Windows?
> > cat /boot/grub/grub.cfg will show you what's behind the grub
> > entries.
> I am now convinced that the problem arises during installation or
> update of grub. update-grub yields this:
> 
>     # update-grub
> 
>     Generating grub configuration file ...
> 
>     Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-66-generic
> 
>     Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-66-generic
> 
>     Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-92-generic
> 
>     Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-92-generic
> 
>     Adding Windows
> 
>     Found memtest86+ image: /memtest86+.elf
> 
>     Found memtest86+ image: /memtest86+.bin
> 
>     Found Windows 7 (loader) on /dev/sda1
> 
>     Found Windows 7 (loader) on /dev/sdc1
> 
>     Found Windows 7 (loader) on /dev/sdc2
> 
>     done
> 
> sda1 and sdc1 have small HPFS/NTFS partitions. sdc1 is likely the
> small partition that Windows adds during installation, a "system
> required . . .", 105 MB partition. (Win-7 is installed on sdc2.)
> 
> I guess I'll just live with these extra / needless entries in the
> grub boot menu at startup - I don't want to screw up a working,
> dual-boot system! I'm also surmising that the entries would reappear
> when a update and grub refresh occurs.
> 
> Thanks to Hartmut and others who have offered suggestions.
> 
> /Roger

If you just don't want to see the additional entries ... why not try
(without quotation marks) "# "[entry you don't want to see].

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