[Tfug] kubuntu grub.cfg question

[earljviolet at deserthowler.com]

Oh, and the file to edit (carefully) is probably /etc/default/grub.  Not
sure since I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 and not Kubuntu.

Earl

On Tue, July 27, 2010 7:53 pm, Charles R. Kiss wrote:
>
> My girlfriend's T61 had Windows Vista booting fine until I edited the
> grub.cfg file |;
>
> Acting like it was the old menu.lst I changed two menuentries, (without
> reading the top of the file!). I rebooted, and had to change them back
> again, but forgot to what, and now the "Windows Vista" partition isn't
> showing in the grub boot menu, though the "Windows Recovery Environment"
> still does, and boots.
>
>
> The original problem was that the grub boot menu was booting the "Windows
> Recovery Environment" when selecting "Windows Vista" from the boot menu,
> or booting "Windows Vista" when selecting "Windows Recovery Environment"
> so I thought I'd just switch the (hd0,#'s), AND... while I was at it, I
> simplified some of the text inside the quotations by removing what I
> imagined were superfluous terms: (loader) and (/dev/sda1) etc. from the
> menuentry before the open brace {... thinking it would make no
> difference...
>
> Well, I was in a hurry.  Now what?
>
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