bv_andy
July 30th, 2011, 03:49 AM
So I installed ubuntu 11.04 x32 (using unetbootin-win-549) next to Win7. Grub installed correctly, it added the win7 boot-loader to the list.
All I wanted to change was the default selection, from Ubuntu latest kernel to Win 7. I first tried StartUp-Manager but the settings didn't take effect (default was still ubuntu and timeout was still 10, not 5 as I selected). Then I went to manually changing the etc/default/grub with gedit only to find that the new settings where already written there. So I just ran update-grub and tried again. Still nothing.
My 3rd try has been with Grub Costumizer. Still nothing... the changes were there, I tried changing them a little but after reboot, Grub still had default settings.
So my question is what am I doing wrong?
I am currently using a workaround by reinstalling win7 bootloader and adding grub to the list using easybcd. Which is good because win7 is the main os (for now) and it cuts a few seconds by bypassing grub.
But I would still like to know what I missed. I've been reading through the "grub 2 basics" guide but I still can't see what I'm doing wrong.
Thanks for any help. (won't be back until tomorrow.)
SOLVED: I did two things today, 1. I reedited /etc/default/grub with "gksu gedit" (I've seen others use it, I have no idea what it does) it is probably not this what solved it anyway.
The second is that I ran "update-grub" with sudo (doh), yesterday I forgot to put sudo but it didn't give me any errors, it looked like it updated with no problems (even "/boot/grub/grub.cfg" looked updated).
All I wanted to change was the default selection, from Ubuntu latest kernel to Win 7. I first tried StartUp-Manager but the settings didn't take effect (default was still ubuntu and timeout was still 10, not 5 as I selected). Then I went to manually changing the etc/default/grub with gedit only to find that the new settings where already written there. So I just ran update-grub and tried again. Still nothing.
My 3rd try has been with Grub Costumizer. Still nothing... the changes were there, I tried changing them a little but after reboot, Grub still had default settings.
So my question is what am I doing wrong?
I am currently using a workaround by reinstalling win7 bootloader and adding grub to the list using easybcd. Which is good because win7 is the main os (for now) and it cuts a few seconds by bypassing grub.
But I would still like to know what I missed. I've been reading through the "grub 2 basics" guide but I still can't see what I'm doing wrong.
Thanks for any help. (won't be back until tomorrow.)
SOLVED: I did two things today, 1. I reedited /etc/default/grub with "gksu gedit" (I've seen others use it, I have no idea what it does) it is probably not this what solved it anyway.
The second is that I ran "update-grub" with sudo (doh), yesterday I forgot to put sudo but it didn't give me any errors, it looked like it updated with no problems (even "/boot/grub/grub.cfg" looked updated).