[Cialug] Ubuntu 12.10 - Grub editor

[Matt Stanton]

In /etc/grub.d (I think that's the dir?) there should be a file called something like 40_custom, which is where you are supposed to add custom entries to the grub menu.  You might notice that there is also a file in that directory that is labelled something about searching for other OSs, and it is a script that searches your hard drives for other OS installs and adds entries for them automatically (supposedly, anyway).  If your Windows install is UEFI/GPT and your Ubuntu install is BIOS/MBR, or vice versa, then one or the other will not be detected.

Grub2 really is a pain... you can't read or edit the config files without a computer science degree.  I haven't done a whole lot of editing with Grub2 stuff other than changing the boot parameters so that I get a 1920x1080 at 24bpp text console, and to do that I had to edit /etc/default/grub.conf (or something like that?).

-- Matt (N0BOX)

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-----Original Message-----
From: David Champion <dchamp1337 at gmail.com>
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
Sent: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 3:51 PM
Subject: [Cialug] Ubuntu 12.10 - Grub editor

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
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