/boot/grub/menu.lst not there[SOLVED]
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/boot/grub/menu.lst not there[SOLVED]
this is kind of weird, i wanted to change my boot options on my mint 7 grub booting screen. i went to open menu.lst but when i went into /boot the only thing there is initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic. nothing else. i just reinstalled my system before this and /boot is on the outermost ext2 partition. is there anywhere else the grub folder might be . i haven't had a problem with the grub boot menu yet; it looks the same as my old install. i just noticed this.
edit: did a filesystem search for it and came up with two examples but the actual menu.lst isn't anywhere to be found
edit: did a filesystem search for it and came up with two examples but the actual menu.lst isn't anywhere to be found
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Re: /boot/grub/menu.lst not there
Try installing kgrubeditor, going down to tools, and hitting "view configuration files". If we're lucky, it will show the actual location of your config file on the first tab.
Re: /boot/grub/menu.lst not there
In a terminal, type or copy/paste
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sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
Re: /boot/grub/menu.lst not there
first of all:
clodapp: I'm hesitant to try your solution because it installs a lot of kde binaries and such that I don't know how it would effect my config files on my gnome system and it's not a big enough problem that I want to make it an even bigger problem trying to fix the minute changes back to the way I want them, but thank you for you intuitive solution(plus it's so much work, you have to open up synaptic and find the program )
and second: (I know this answer won't solve the original problem, but it's just nice to get back to my beloved readers sometimes, and this may solve problems of a different nature somewhere else and i ask you to please read to the end)
Markcynt I didn't feel that you answer really had any thought put into it but you just saw the keywords "menu.lst" and "edit" and immediately you assumed i was incompetant or that somehow simply typing into the terminal what I had been trying to do would have fixed the problem. I can really edit the file /boot/grub/menu.lst if there's no /grub folder now can I? just putting sudo in the front doesn't make the file suddenly appear ) and just putting code in your answers may make it seem more correct than clodapp's but it really isn't, I could have just used the "open as root" command in nautilus, so you really don't need to use the terminal. I'm sorry if I'm coming over as a little cross, but the post wouldn't have been called "/boot/grub/menu.lst not there" if the file was there, I could have told you your answer was wrong without even reading the whole question, just look at the title next time please. I understand you probably had no idea that i already tried that, but you could have at least added "I assumed you've tried the obvious" to the beginning instead of a "I don't have time to read or answer fully so i'll just put the 'try clicking on it with more gusto' answer."
Sorry it had to be you but there are two people on forums that really tick me off. There are the people who your answer actually would have helped (help vampires), aka the people who don't try every obvious option before asking a questions on a forum, and there are the people who treat people like me who have tried the obvious solutions like "sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst" like I obviously just need to be more terminal "savvy" like you.
(THE POST'S TITLE IS "/boot/grub/menu.lst not there" SO WHERE IS IT? NOT THERE!)
If you were seriously trying to add helpful input to my problem than i thank you for your answer and none of that was directed at you.
thank you and I understand that this didn't solve the original problem or helped in any way.
clodapp: I'm hesitant to try your solution because it installs a lot of kde binaries and such that I don't know how it would effect my config files on my gnome system and it's not a big enough problem that I want to make it an even bigger problem trying to fix the minute changes back to the way I want them, but thank you for you intuitive solution(plus it's so much work, you have to open up synaptic and find the program )
and second: (I know this answer won't solve the original problem, but it's just nice to get back to my beloved readers sometimes, and this may solve problems of a different nature somewhere else and i ask you to please read to the end)
Markcynt I didn't feel that you answer really had any thought put into it but you just saw the keywords "menu.lst" and "edit" and immediately you assumed i was incompetant or that somehow simply typing into the terminal what I had been trying to do would have fixed the problem. I can really edit the file /boot/grub/menu.lst if there's no /grub folder now can I? just putting sudo in the front doesn't make the file suddenly appear ) and just putting code in your answers may make it seem more correct than clodapp's but it really isn't, I could have just used the "open as root" command in nautilus, so you really don't need to use the terminal. I'm sorry if I'm coming over as a little cross, but the post wouldn't have been called "/boot/grub/menu.lst not there" if the file was there, I could have told you your answer was wrong without even reading the whole question, just look at the title next time please. I understand you probably had no idea that i already tried that, but you could have at least added "I assumed you've tried the obvious" to the beginning instead of a "I don't have time to read or answer fully so i'll just put the 'try clicking on it with more gusto' answer."
Sorry it had to be you but there are two people on forums that really tick me off. There are the people who your answer actually would have helped (help vampires), aka the people who don't try every obvious option before asking a questions on a forum, and there are the people who treat people like me who have tried the obvious solutions like "sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst" like I obviously just need to be more terminal "savvy" like you.
(THE POST'S TITLE IS "/boot/grub/menu.lst not there" SO WHERE IS IT? NOT THERE!)
If you were seriously trying to add helpful input to my problem than i thank you for your answer and none of that was directed at you.
thank you and I understand that this didn't solve the original problem or helped in any way.
Re: /boot/grub/menu.lst not there
shua,
Please post your /etc/fstab file. Type "/etc/fstab" without the quotes in the url line of your browser, and press enter. Post what pops up.
Fred
Please post your /etc/fstab file. Type "/etc/fstab" without the quotes in the url line of your browser, and press enter. Post what pops up.
Fred
Re: /boot/grub/menu.lst not there
Hey! Who u callin' vampire?Sorry it had to be you but there are two people on forums that really tick me off. There are the people who your answer actually would have helped (help vampires), aka the people who don't try every obvious option before asking a questions on a forum,
Last edited by mzsade on Sun Oct 04, 2009 5:35 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: /boot/grub/menu.lst not there
Just trying to help.shua wrote:first of all:
Markcynt I didn't feel that you answer really had any thought put into it but you just saw the keywords "menu.lst" and "edit" and immediately you assumed i was incompetant or that somehow simply typing into the terminal what I had been trying to do would have fixed the problem. I can really edit the file /boot/grub/menu.lst if there's no /grub folder now can I? just putting sudo in the front doesn't make the file suddenly appear ) and just putting code in your answers may make it seem more correct than clodapp's but it really isn't, I could have just used the "open as root" command in nautilus, so you really don't need to use the terminal. I'm sorry if I'm coming over as a little cross, but the post wouldn't have been called "/boot/grub/menu.lst not there" if the file was there, I could have told you your answer was wrong without even reading the whole question, just look at the title next time please. I understand you probably had no idea that i already tried that, but you could have at least added "I assumed you've tried the obvious" to the beginning instead of a "I don't have time to read or answer fully so i'll just put the 'try clicking on it with more gusto' answer."
Sorry it had to be you but there are two people on forums that really tick me off. There are the people who your answer actually would have helped (help vampires), aka the people who don't try every obvious option before asking a questions on a forum, and there are the people who treat people like me who have tried the obvious solutions like "sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst" like I obviously just need to be more terminal "savvy" like you.
(THE POST'S TITLE IS "/boot/grub/menu.lst not there" SO WHERE IS IT? NOT THERE!)
If you were seriously trying to add helpful input to my problem than i thank you for your answer and none of that was directed at you.
thank you and I understand that this didn't solve the original problem or helped in any way.
How do I know what your capabilities are?
How do I know what you tried?
I think you have sensitivity issues.
Kgrub is a great program on Gonome or KDE. It's harmless.
Re: /boot/grub/menu.lst not there
i just reinstalled my system before this and /boot is on the outermost ext2 partitionshua wrote:i went to open menu.lst but when i went into /boot the only thing there is initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic. nothing else. i just reinstalled my system before this and /boot is on the outermost ext2 partition. is there anywhere else the grub folder might be :? . i haven't had a problem with the grub boot menu yet; it looks the same as my old install. i just noticed this.
edit: did a filesystem search for it and came up with two examples but the actual menu.lst isn't anywhere to be found :?
Probably why Fred wants the /etc/fstab file, wants to know if you have multiple Linux partitions (ext2 ?), since the normal / (root tree for Linux mint) will default to ext3 as the partition type..
Does that indicate you know where the menu.1st file is located, which hard drive
In terminal
sudo fdisk -l
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Here's mine..
sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for MintuserID:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 3891 31254426 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 3892 14593 85963815 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 3892 14152 82421451 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 14153 14593 3542301 82 Linux swap / Solaris
The * indicates that is the boot drive (the drive where the MBR Master Boot record is stored, that then loads grub to give you the menu selections..)
- --so my Linux is on /dev/sda5
- df
df -l
df /
--will all give similar data
mount
--will also show the format (type of partition ext2, ext3 etc..), so mount gets a similar list for you
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df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5 81127888 10001028 67005788 13% /
tmpfs 1030964 0 1030964 0% /lib/init/rw
varrun 1030964 68 1030896 1% /var/run
varlock 1030964 0 1030964 0% /var/lock
udev 1030964 152 1030812 1% /dev
tmpfs 1030964 88 1030876 1% /dev/shm
lrm 1030964 2192 1028772 1% /lib/modules/2.6.28-15-generic/volatile
In terminal
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ls /boot
abi-2.6.28-11-generic initrd.img-2.6.28-15-generic
abi-2.6.28-13-generic memtest86+.bin
abi-2.6.28-15-generic System.map-2.6.28-11-generic
boot System.map-2.6.28-13-generic
is there anywhere else the grub folder might be
Er No, it will be in the /boot/grub directory (folder) on your mounted drive, from where you are running Linux, when you booted the system.
As long as you install grub normally, that is to the MBR, the first hard drive of your system
search for it and came up with two examples but the actual menu.lst isn't anywhere to be found
In terminal, check
- locate menu.lst
/boot/grub/menu.lst
/boot/grub/menu.lst~
--that's a backup file
/usr/share/doc/grub-gfxboot/examples/menu.lst
/usr/share/doc/memtest86+/examples/grub-menu.lst
Re: /boot/grub/menu.lst not there
seabreeze,
Good point. I hadn't even noticed.
Thanks.
Fred
Good point. I hadn't even noticed.
Thanks.
Fred
Re: /boot/grub/menu.lst not there
WOW! now i feel incompetent, sorry markcynt for the erm, shall we say disgruntled reply. but i like that sensitivity issues comment.
when someone mentioned to post my fstab i realized that i had set my /boot ext2 to not automatically mount when booted up, so it would show /boot in nautilus or terminal but since it wasn't mounted nothing showed up. wow do i feel stupid and embarrassed. and the whole "The original post was Jul 11 and a follow up post by shua on Oct 4 - that's about 12 weeks apart. Just an observation..." was because i was waiting to see if anyone else had any ideas but that's no excuse i should have said that, without the steam.
well i mounted the /boot ext2 filesystem with and was able to view my files along with menu.1st. woot!
thank you to all and to all a good night, im sleepy.
(i realized that i only go on these forums when it's like 12 midnight and i look like this )
when someone mentioned to post my fstab i realized that i had set my /boot ext2 to not automatically mount when booted up, so it would show /boot in nautilus or terminal but since it wasn't mounted nothing showed up. wow do i feel stupid and embarrassed. and the whole "The original post was Jul 11 and a follow up post by shua on Oct 4 - that's about 12 weeks apart. Just an observation..." was because i was waiting to see if anyone else had any ideas but that's no excuse i should have said that, without the steam.
well i mounted the /boot ext2 filesystem with
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sudo mount /dev/sda1
thank you to all and to all a good night, im sleepy.
(i realized that i only go on these forums when it's like 12 midnight and i look like this )