GRUB menu.lst

Forum: HD Install
Topic: GRUB menu.lst
started by: mickster

Posted by mickster on Feb. 27 2007,17:15

I opened /boot/grub/menu.lst in beaver to edit it, but I cant seem to change anything?

Posted by lucky13 on Feb. 27 2007,18:37

Quote (mickster @ Feb. 27 2007,12:15)

I opened /boot/grub/menu.lst in beaver to edit it, but I cant seem to change anything?

You need to edit it as super user (root) instead of as user. In a terminal type:
sudo beaver /boot/grub/menu.lst

Posted by mickster on Feb. 28 2007,15:25

I tried opening it as a super user/root but i still can't change anything in it.

Does anyone know any other way to change /boot/grub/must.lst??

Posted by roberts on Feb. 28 2007,15:37

That would be for a traditional hard drive installation.

Frugal or Pendrive depends on how booted.
Without 'toram' it is /cdrom/boot/grub/menu.lst
Booted with toram, first mount the device, hdaX or sdaX and then edit /mnt/hdaX/boot/grub/menu.lst

Posted by lucky13 on Feb. 28 2007,15:47

Quote (mickster @ Feb. 28 2007,10:25)

I tried opening it as a super user/root but i still can't change anything in it.

Frugal or hard drive install? Note which section of the forum this is. Is your system set up as read-only?

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Does anyone know any other way to change /boot/grub/must.lst??

Yes, the way I told you should work on a hard drive install unless you (a) have a frugal install, (b) didn't properly unmount your / partition the last time you shut down, or (c ) have otherwise mounted your DSL partition as read-only. Had (b) occurred, you would've been prompted at your next boot to remount the system as read-write and reboot.