Whera I can Find "menu.lst" for GRUB With This Situation.....

[maverik35]

so,what are those file?could you help me?

Ok, as stated by r083rt, the menu.lst is the grub.cfg (in grub2). ANY modification directly BY HAND to this file might result in a failure boot or boot problems, so it is not recommended.

This file (/boot/grub/grub.cfg) is CREATED by update-grub2 command.

There are 2 files (templates if you want to see them that way) that uses the update-grub2 and you can modify to add entries or OS and modify the order of OS to boot from, names, etc.

1. /etc/grub.d/ is a folder which contains some files, all of those files are read by update-grub command and update the grub.cfg. If you want to add an entry, let's say Windows 7, then edit file 40_custom
nano /etc/grub.b/40_custom and add this entry:

menuentry "Windows 7" {
insmod ntfs
set root=(hd0,1) ----- > hd0 is your first drive sda. 1 is the partition number.
chainloader +1
}

save and close. Here you can create a new file instead of using 40_custom, like 45_Win7, 43_custom_XP, etc.

Now, if you want to alter some parameters for example, timeout to show the list of OS when booting, or change the order to boot the OS, etc, use the file: /etc/default/grub. Edit it and change parameters as needed:

nano /etc/default/grub

save and close it..

Once done, execute the command update-grub2. When it finishes, all changes made will be available at boot....

Now reboot...If you do no see some OS, run os-prober and then again update-grub2...

os-prober searches HDD for partitions and show them in the terminal...

Luck....

[BigMac]

i guess this thread is solved and i dont want to upset anyone with my question but i fill this is the correct place to ask being it is sort of related...

"How do i change the boot order" i have done a triple boot, windows7, linux mint and backtrack 5(10.04 lucid kernel 3.2.6)
when my grub loads it looks something like this

cat /boot/grub/grub.cfg | grep menuentry

(DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE)
menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 3.2.6' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 3.2.6 (recovery mode)' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.32-42-generic' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.32-42-generic (recovery mode)' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+)" {
menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+, serial console 115200)" {
menuentry "Windows Vista (loader) (on /dev/sda1)" {
menuentry "Windows 7 (loader) (on /dev/sda2)" {
menuentry "Linux Mint 13 Cinnamon 64-bit, 3.2.0-31-generic (/dev/sdb1) (on /dev/sdb1)" {
menuentry "Linux Mint 13 Cinnamon 64-bit, 3.2.0-31-generic (/dev/sdb1) -- recovery mode (on /dev/sdb1)" {
menuentry "Linux Mint 13 Cinnamon 64-bit, 3.2.0-23-generic (/dev/sdb1) (on /dev/sdb1)" {
menuentry "Linux Mint 13 Cinnamon 64-bit, 3.2.0-23-generic (/dev/sdb1) -- recovery mode (on /dev/sdb1)" {

so my question is how can i change the order and set linux mint as the first boot...

[maverik35]

i guess this thread is solved and i dont want to upset anyone with my question but i fill this is the correct place to ask being it is sort of related...

"How do i change the boot order" i have done a triple boot, windows7, linux mint and backtrack 5(10.04 lucid kernel 3.2.6)
when my grub loads it looks something like this

cat /boot/grub/grub.cfg | grep menuentry

(DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE)
menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 3.2.6' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 3.2.6 (recovery mode)' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.32-42-generic' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.32-42-generic (recovery mode)' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+)" {
menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+, serial console 115200)" {
menuentry "Windows Vista (loader) (on /dev/sda1)" {
menuentry "Windows 7 (loader) (on /dev/sda2)" {
menuentry "Linux Mint 13 Cinnamon 64-bit, 3.2.0-31-generic (/dev/sdb1) (on /dev/sdb1)" {
menuentry "Linux Mint 13 Cinnamon 64-bit, 3.2.0-31-generic (/dev/sdb1) -- recovery mode (on /dev/sdb1)" {
menuentry "Linux Mint 13 Cinnamon 64-bit, 3.2.0-23-generic (/dev/sdb1) (on /dev/sdb1)" {
menuentry "Linux Mint 13 Cinnamon 64-bit, 3.2.0-23-generic (/dev/sdb1) -- recovery mode (on /dev/sdb1)" {

so my question is how can i change the order and set linux mint as the first boot...

I belive it was solved...

You do not upset anyone, my friend, we are here to help..But you had to open a new thread since this one is from someone else..

But being here, I'd like to give you a piece of advice: read little more about ther GRUB...

Now, let's get to the point:

to change the order of default boot, as I mentioned before, you have 2 "templates" so to speak..Those 2 ftemplates will modify your grub.cfg file...

One of the templates or files is /etc/default/grub, here you will modify the boot order. Now this file or template has many parameters, if you can browse it or edit it.

To change a meny entry to be the default, there is a value you have to modify: GRUB_DEFAULT, having 3 ways of doing it:

1. Assign the corresponding line number (starting from 0) in /boot/grub/grub.cfg
GRUB_DEFAULT=0 (in your case this would be the first line and I quote : 'Ubuntu, with Linux 3.2.6' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {"
if you want, per say : menuentry "Linux Mint 13 Cinnamon 64-bit, 3.2.0-31-generic (/dev/sdb1) (on /dev/sdb1)" { you have to see the line number starting from 0, this line is number 9, starting from 0).. Then your parameter wold be:
GRUB_DEFAULT=9

2. Asign the menu entry Label: as appearded in your grub.cfg:
GRUB_DEFAULT="Linux Mint 13 Cinnamon 64-bit, 3.2.0-31-generic (/dev/sdb1) (on /dev/sdb1)"

3. Also assigning the "saved" value, if so, it will use the entry used in the last boot.
GRUB_DEFAULT=saved

Once modified, run update-grub, this will make system to read both templates (/etc/default/grub and scripts under /etc/grub.d) with your modifications and will create the NEW /boot/grub/grub.cfg...Then Reboot.

So, first, take a look at your /etc/grub and see it to modify accordingly..

Luck.