Another GRUB issue

[mattygg]

Hi all,

I have been looking through your forum all night but cant seem to find the answer.

I have a dual boot system w7 and ubunutu. When i had version 10.10 (i think) everything was working fine, the grub would select w7 as boot preference.

I have, however just updated to 11.04 and i cant get the grub to change its order. I have tried using startupmanager and selecting the second to last one, as per tips and i have also tried all the options. I have also tried editing the grub file, i think its /etc/default/grub. i have also tried grub-customizer but again, this doesnt work.

I have noticed however that the options shown arent the same as the options when i boot my system. Im not sure whether i have got two GRUBS installed or something like that.

I have also tried using boot-repair, however this just states that there is no GRUB installed, however as i mentioned, i can read the grub, and so can the programs.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Matt

[nzjethro]

Did you run


update-grub

I had major issues with my dual boot when I reverted back from 11.04 to 10.10 because I forgot this step.

[oldfred]

Welcome to the forums.

Grub 1.99 has some major changes and some of the gui tools have not caught up. I think startup manager may create a menu.lst and confuse booting? I would for a short time now just edit /etc/default/grub manually until the gui tools catch up.

Grub 1.99 Submenus - drs305
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1739336
LIveCD needs to be 1.99 same version
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1751383

Post boot script:
Boot Info Script courtesy of forum members meierfra & Gert Hulselmans
Page with instructions and download:
http://bootinfoscript.sourceforge.net/
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