Want grub in 9.1 to show only XP and active ubuntu

**DnDer** · February 19th, 2010

I'm installing this for someone else who will never use or need to use any other option than "boot windows" or "boot ubuntu." Having anything else in grub will just confuse them.

I can't figure out how to configure the new grub2 file properly in /etc/default/grub, which is what replaced the old list file - that's what google tells me, anyway.

What do I need to do to make only 2 OSs show up on this?

**Girya** · February 19th, 2010

Originally Posted by DnDer

I'm installing this for someone else who will never use or need to use any other option than "boot windows" or "boot ubuntu." Having anything else in grub will just confuse them.

I can't figure out how to configure the new grub2 file properly in /etc/default/grub, which is what replaced the old list file - that's what google tells me, anyway.

What do I need to do to make only 2 OSs show up on this?

check out removing entries caveat: haven't tried this myself yet but i'm going to try as soon as I post

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1195275

**DnDer** · February 19th, 2010

Read it, didn't understand it.

Also read the readme in /etc/geub.d/ and it didn't make a lot of sense, either.

First time I've ever attempted something like this, so I know nothing about what I'm doing.

**DnDer** · February 19th, 2010

Down to 4 entries...

generic 2.6.31-19, generic recovery 2.6.31-19, xp home, nt/2000/xp (which was never on the netbook to my knowledge... maybe that's the recovery console...)

If I could just stack them in generic 2.6.31-19, xp home as my first two choices, then I'd be golden.

**Girya** · February 19th, 2010

ok, this is what i did:

warning this will break your system if you make a mistake so be very sure you know what you are doing and you are willing to live with the consequences if you do make a mistake

1) open up a terminal and type:

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uname -r

this is the kernel you want to keep: on my machine its 2.6.31-19-generic it may be different on your machine.

so in synaptic package manager search "linux-headers" and and right click on the headers that aren't the output from uname -r. and click on "mark for complete removal"

then search linux-image and do the same thing you just did for the header files (mark for complete removal) then click apply and reboot and you should just have memtest xp and ubuntu in grub. to get rid of memtest
paste this command into a terminal

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