[mdlug] Fixing grub with dual boot

JeremyBekka C jrchristophel at gmail.com
Mon Oct 19 22:43:26 EDT 2020


I forgot to mention that I modified /etc/default/grub instead so that I
would not have to worry about messing up the config file. Just wanted to
make that clear because I know you mentioned not to run grub-update.

Jeremy

On Sun, Oct 18, 2020 at 10:13 PM Drew <drew4096 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Look for a file at /boot/grub/grub.cfg, and all files that it calls.
> Make sure that there's a 'set timeout N' with N being a sufficiently
> large number of seconds for you to react, before the menu gets run.
> Also, 'set default D' with D being the menu entry to be booted in the
> event that you just let the boot sequence run. Again, this should
> occur before the menu.
>
> You will probably see a comment saying not to edit the file. So long
> as you don't run grub-update you can ignore this directive.
> grub-update reads a bunch of files somewhere in the /etc tree and
> generates a new grub.cfg.
> _______________________________________________
> mdlug mailing list
> mdlug at mdlug.org
> http://mdlug.org/mailman/listinfo/mdlug
>


More information about the mdlug mailing list