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On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 21:15 +0100, james kilty wrote: > On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 20:00 +0100, kevin wrote: > > > > > > or this may help > > http://www.debianadmin.com/configure-grub-and-usplash-settings-using-simple-gui-interface-in-ubuntu.html > Imagemagick and Startup-Manager can all be installed from repositories > via synaptic. > > So, using Startup-Manager, in the first tab, boot options>default > operating system>opening the menu shows all the items in my menu.lst - > implying they should show up when I first boot. There is no option I can > see to edit the list. > > I could set XP as the default, hoping I can also select back once I have > it!!!! > > What do you think I should do? (I just rebooted and the XP option did > not appear - just a check). Interesting that Ther have been all sorts of > instabilities in 8.04 and lots of updates. I had lost wireless and could > only gewt it back by manually putting in 198.162.1.1 as the default > gateway. The screen rightness went down greatly and I could find no way > to restore it even on Windows. My daughter used it just the once, with a > dvd in Linux and it came back - simultaneously losing XP. Mysterious. > > James > > > -- > james kilty > http://www.kilty.demon.co.uk > have you found the grub.conf file if so send it so I know what is there? you can do the XP as default but only as root! do you have a root account or do you use sudo -start-up manager > Regards Kevin Lucas Minions Post Master(Sub) Po House, Minions, Liskeard Cornwall PL14 5LE 01579363386 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html