Re: [LUG] Gutst gibbon,installed but will not load

["Jonathan Roberts" <jonathan.roberts.uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Trish, I'll see if I can be a little clearer...

This is my grub.conf (the configuration file...), yours should look
something similar (a little different because I use Fedora rather than
Ubuntu) - this is just an example so you'll know if you roughly the
same thing you've got the right file :D

OK, so to edit it, once you've booted, open a terminal and type:

sudo gedit /boot/grub/grub.conf

This should launch this file in a text editor. You simply need to make
sure the entry you want to boot by default is at the top of the list,
so in my case:

title Fedora (2.6.23.1-23.fc8)
        root (hd0,3)
        kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.1-23.fc8 ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet
        initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.23.1-23.fc8.img

Then, save the file and exit. Reboot and hopefully it'll boot the
correct one by default :D

Best wishes,

Jon



# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You do not have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.
#          root (hd0,3)
#          kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda4
#          initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda4
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,3)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.23.1-23.fc8)
        root (hd0,3)
        kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.1-23.fc8 ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet
        initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.23.1-23.fc8.img
title Fedora (2.6.23-0.214.rc8.git2.fc8)
        root (hd0,3)
        kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23-0.214.rc8.git2.fc8 ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet
        initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.23-0.214.rc8.git2.fc8.img

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