Re: [Hampshire] Problems changing boot order in Ubuntu

Hi,

Thanks for the response. I don't think I'm using grub2 - I'm just using
what came with the latest version of Ubuntu.

The strange thing is that I have been doing it as root. I've been using
sudo to run the editor command, and it's been saving it fine.

Any other ideas what might be going wrong?

Robin

Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Jan 2009 14:54:21 +0000
> Robin Wilson <r.t.wilson@???> wrote:
>
> Hello Robin,
>
>> Any ideas anyone? I'm a bit wary of trying too much in the dark -
>> cause if I can't get into Windows at the moment then I'll be really
>> stuck!
>
> You've been doing the right thing; Alterations to /boot/grub/menu.lst
> affect operation of Grub. Two things, however;
>
> 1) such changes have to be made as root user,
> 2) Grub2 doesn't use menu.lst but /etc/default/grub instead.
>
> From your post, it's not totally clear what you did. Most likely, you
> need to su to root, then make the changes. I mention Grub2 just in case
> you're using it, though it seems unlikely.
>
>