Re: [Hampshire] Problems changing boot order in Ubuntu

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Author: Hugo Mills
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Problems changing boot order in Ubuntu

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On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 12:02:47AM +0000, trotter wrote:
> At 21:06 05/01/2009, you wrote:
> >Thanks James - that solved it.
> >
> >I found that the /boot in /etc/fstab was commented out, but I checked in
> >cfdisk and I definitely did have a boot partition. I uncommented the
> >line and mounted it and then edited the menu.lst file on that partition.
> >It then worked first time! :-)
>
>
> Are you saying every single line in menu.lst is commented out?
> and thus grub goes and finds menu.lst elsewhere.


No, he's saying that the menu.lst he was editing wasn't the one the
system was using. He mounted the filesystem that grub was looking at,
and edited the menu.lst on there, and it all worked.

Hugo.

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