[Cialug] Ubuntu 12.10 - Grub editor

[Don Ellis]

Used to be, Ubuntu preserved ability to dual boot and other distros broke
it (in my experience).

Current development in Ubuntu is targeting tablet users, not "everyone",
and I've heard many complaints about how they're trying to hide stuff that
we're used to seeing exposed

Have you tried Mint? I believe it was created for people who felt left
behind by Ubuntu.

--Don Ellis


On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 5:06 PM, David Champion <dchamp1337 at gmail.com>wrote:

> I would have a better attitude if it worked. Google for "ubuntu 12.10 dual
> boot". You will find many people struggling with this. It doesn't work -
> the default behavior of the Ubuntu 12.10 installer is to break the Windows
> boot.
>
> Every other Linux distro I've used recently lets you dual boot.
>
> As for the grub editor... if they're trying to make this a distro for
> everyone, why the hell wouldn't there be a grub editor instead of making
> people edit cfg files with vi? Other distros have had a method of editing
> the boot loader, and I recall being able to do it in Ubuntu a few years
> ago.
>
> For instance - if you want to change the boot order, so another OS boots by
> default... why can't you do this with a simple gui tool?
>
> -dc
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Kevin Smith <kevin at linuxsmith.com> wrote:
>
> > I sense a bad attitude ;)
> > It should be the same a Debian.
> >
> > Try Vim and look here ..
> >
> > /etc/grub.d/
> >
> > Some options may also be in the defaults directory, but I suspect what
> you
> > need is in the above mentioned directory.
> >
> > This is from memory/experience so it could be wrong.
> > On Jan 26, 2013 3:51 PM, "David Champion" <dchamp1337 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Is there a Grub editor in Ubuntu 12.10? There used to be one. There
> some
> > > you can add by using a 3rd party repo, or you can edit the conf files
> by
> > > hand (the one's that start with "don't edit this by hand"), in my past
> > > experience with editing grub files in Ubuntu, your edits only work
> once,
> > > then get reverted by the system.
> > >
> > > Or... is this just another thing that is fundamentally broken in
> Ubuntu?
> > >
> > > -dc
>