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RFXCasey
October 18th, 2010, 06:52 PM
Windows XP pro already residing on my laptop, I installed Ubuntu 10.4 and let it handle all the nasty business of creating a dual boot. Restart the machine and viewing the boot options I would like the XP to appear first instead of last as it currently shows.

Fired up Ubuntu so I could edit the menu.lst but when I go into /boot/ there is no menu.lst file. OK so then I think XP is creating the boot menu maybe so I go into the boot.ini file and there is no mention of Ubuntu whatsoever. So what incredibly noobish mistake and I making???

JackNocturne
October 18th, 2010, 06:56 PM
You are probably using GRUB2 , its different from GRUB-Legacy(aka old)

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Grub2

snowpine
October 18th, 2010, 06:58 PM
Ubuntu no longer uses GRUB (/boot/grub/menu.lst) but the new GRUB2. This document will bring you up to speed on the changes:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2

RFXCasey
October 18th, 2010, 07:02 PM
Thanks, both you guys are great!!!:-D