On 2 March 2010 01:57, A J Binnie <gus.bin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I joined this list a couple of weeks ago, and tonight I've had my first > reason to post something. Been using Ubuntu on and off since 6.06 and with > every release I'm getting closer to making it my main OS (I dual-boot with > Windows Vista at the moment, which is my main reason for finally wanting to > ditch Windows...) > > Until now I've always used 32-bit versions of Ubuntu and was happily > running 9.10 on this machine. Tonight, though, I decided to do a fresh > install and go with the 64-bit version. I was hitherto unaware that my > machine would support it, but that turned out not to be the case. > > What's annoying me is that I have a list of kernels that appear on the GRUB > menu that I no longer have installed. Indeed, when I try to boot into any of > them, the boot process stops. I deleted all the partitions that Ubuntu > originally resided on and recreated them all from scratch, so I can only > assume that the grub list that comes up is stored in the MBR, which should, > in theory, be on my main windows partition. > > Back in the old days I was able to edit /boot/grub/menu.lst or something > similar... where are the grub configuration files kept these days? There > seems to be quite a change in 9.10. > > Thanks in advance. > > Gus > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ >
i believe as of 9.10 the default bootlader is now grub2 instead of grub. grub2 has a different menu setup and more features. There is still a menu file. /boot/grub/grub.conf You should not edit this by hand though. more info here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1195275 azmodie
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