Ubuntu 9.04 Installation Questions

Thanks I tried that and it worked perfectly!

I still have one more problem, after the Ubuntu install, the bios gave me a boot screen that I have never seen before. I want to remove that boot screen and use the windows standard boot screen. See my post for more info. (http://forums.cnet.com/5208-6142_102-0.html?messageID=3113044&tag=forum-w;forums06)

as what is that you want. You have installed Ubuntu, and I presume that you will be using both Win XP and Ubuntu. The screen gives this option.

You can change the default OS by editing the menu file in Ubuntu. Is this what you want?

Ramesh

Sorry for the break.

Not too sure if the type of start screen you want is possible without playing around with the Menu listing file of Ubuntu. The screen that you want comes up after the initial Windows boot.

You can edit the screen display so that it shows simply a choice of Ubuntu or Windows.

Ramesh

That is what I am looking for. How do you do that.

Also, is there any way to have the OS select screen pop up only when a selected key is pressed at start up?

1. Boot up the computer in Ubuntu

2. Backup the menu.lst file:
a) Applications > Accessories > Terminal
b) Type "sudo cp /boot/grub/menu.lst /boot/grub/menubak.lst" and Enter
3. Edit the menu.lst file:
a) Type in Terminal "sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst" and Enter
This will open the menu.lst file in the editor

locate this:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
## ## End Default Options ##

title Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-11-generic
uuid 22b78024-f5d3-4eff-b440-717ab5d5a3d6
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic root=UUID=22b78024-f5d3-4eff-b440-717ab5d5a3d6 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic
quiet

title Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-11-generic (recovery mode)
uuid 22b78024-f5d3-4eff-b440-717ab5d5a3d6
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic root=UUID=22b78024-f5d3-4eff-b440-717ab5d5a3d6 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic

title Ubuntu 9.04, memtest86+
uuid 22b78024-f5d3-4eff-b440-717ab5d5a3d6
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet

### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST

# This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian
# ones.
title Other operating systems:
root


# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/sda1
title Microsoft Windows XP Professional
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
savedefault
chainloader +1

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

move the last 4 lines to just below ## ## End Default Options ## so that the above section looks like this:

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
## ## End Default Options ##

title Microsoft Windows XP Professional
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
savedefault
chainloader +1

title Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-11-generic
uuid 22b78024-f5d3-4eff-b440-717ab5d5a3d6
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic root=UUID=22b78024-f5d3-4eff-b440-717ab5d5a3d6 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic
quiet

title Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-11-generic (recovery mode)
uuid 22b78024-f5d3-4eff-b440-717ab5d5a3d6
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic root=UUID=22b78024-f5d3-4eff-b440-717ab5d5a3d6 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic

title Ubuntu 9.04, memtest86+
uuid 22b78024-f5d3-4eff-b440-717ab5d5a3d6
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet

### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST


# This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian
# ones.
title Other operating systems:
root


# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/sda1
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

In your case, only the first 2 title blocks are necessary.
Ensure that ALL lines including "Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-11-generic (recovery mode)" is deleted.

On line 14 you have a statememt "default 0"

If you want the Default system to Bootup as XP, leave it as it is. If you want Ubuntu as the Default bootup, change it to 1.

Save and Reboot.

My advice would be to delete all lines after "### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST" so that the option of Repairing the Ubuntu OS is available.

Ramesh

Thanks that worked perfectly.

Also do you know of any way to have that screen pop-up when a hot key is pressed? If the hotkey isn't pressed on startup it will just default to windows XP.

Default line says which option is default start to count from 0, 0 means first. Timeout says how long grub will wait until entering default in seconds. hiddenmenu hides menu unless esc pressed.
Linux users who do not have options in grub may want add to menu.lst:

hiddenmenu
default 0
timeout 0

You can install Startup Manager Via Synaptic Package Manager. This gives you a GUI panel to edit GRUB.

I prefer clasic way: edit configuration text files. This is easy too: you can keep notes, old settings with # at start of line etc.