[Tfug] kubuntu grub.cfg question

chris whitman callchriswhitman at gmail.com
Wed Jul 28 06:12:06 MST 2010


https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Charles R. Kiss
<charles at kissbrothers.com>wrote:

>
> My girlfriend's T61 had Windows Vista booting fine until I edited the
> grub.cfg file |;
>
> Acting like it was the old menu.lst I changed two menuentries, (without
> reading the top of the file!). I rebooted, and had to change them back
> again, but forgot to what, and now the "Windows Vista" partition isn't
> showing in the grub boot menu, though the "Windows Recovery Environment"
> still does, and boots.
>
>
> The original problem was that the grub boot menu was booting the "Windows
> Recovery Environment" when selecting "Windows Vista" from the boot menu, or
> booting "Windows Vista" when selecting "Windows Recovery Environment" so I
> thought I'd just switch the (hd0,#'s), AND... while I was at it, I
> simplified some of the text inside the quotations by removing what I
> imagined were superfluous terms: (loader) and (/dev/sda1) etc. from the
> menuentry before the open brace {... thinking it would make no difference...
>
> Well, I was in a hurry.  Now what?
>
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