How do I edit available OS's in GRUB loading screen?

[tall]

Hi,

I have Vista and Mint (Gloria) playing nicely with a dual-boot.

I recently did some partitioning, reinstalling both OS's ,etc.

Everything works fine ...except:

It's kind of annoying how the GRUB loading screen offers me two "Vista" installs to load. One is the Dell "System Recovery" partition and the other is actually Vista.

Is there a way I can go and 1) either remove the System Recovery from the available booting options, or 2) rename it at the very least so I don't have two partitions with the same name (again, they are both just called "Vista")

Thanks!

[emorrp1]

yep, open the /boot/grub/menu.lst file as root, scroll to the bottom and either remove the entry you don't want (they're in order) or change the title line to something more useful. Make sure to only change the vista entries.

[Zwopper]

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gksu gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

...and edit away!

EDIT: Dang! - emorrp1 beat me to it!

EDIT 2: Fixed typo and wrong information.

[atlef]

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sudu gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

...and edit away!

EDIT: Dang! - emorrp1 beat me to it!

It should be sudo, not sudu. And you do not do this from terminal, but

alt+F2 and write gksu gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

atlef.

[Zwopper]

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sudu gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

...and edit away!

EDIT: Dang! - emorrp1 beat me to it!

It should be sudo, not sudu. And you do not do this from terminal, but

alt+F2 and write gksu gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

atlef.

sudo=True - > Keyslip - sorry!
gksu=Also true - my usual way of doing it is through nano, so in my case it is:

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sudo nano  /boot/grub/menu.lst

Goes to show, you shouldn't type when you're tired!

[atlef]

Just to pick on your typo's, shouldn't it be shouldn't.

Here is my last one: Thread.


atlef.

[Zwopper]

Just to pick on your typo's, shouldn't it be shouldn't.

Here is my last one: Thread.


atlef.

LOL!