How do I (re)move Ubuntu Memtest?

fwor

wolfman wrote: »

Hmmm I get your point, but asking the average person to edit a system file is harder.

You're right - it's easy to forget how that file looked like a foreign language when I first looked at it!

Incidentally, if the OP is using Ubuntu Hardy, they don't even need to open Brasero. Simply download the ISO file to the desktop and double-click on it, and the built-in CD/DVD writer app will burn it to CD with one click.

D.K.

Hi Gentlemen,
fwor you say that I just have to change 1 number. I've had a long look at what you printed but still can't figure out which No!!
"Default entry number NUM." I suppose but sorry I can't see it in the lists.

Also I'm not on Hardy so I don't suppose your suggestions will work Wolfman...any idea how long it takes to download?

Many thanks for your help and patience.
I'll bet the solutions staring me in the face but I no speak ubunto and I only have pidjin Windows.

D.

fwor

The first thing you ~have~ to bear in mind is that every line that starts with a # symbol is just a comment line which will be ignored by GRUB.

In the example I gave above, there is only one line that starts with the word "default" and it's followed by the number 4 because I want it to start the fifth item (remembering that the count starts at 0) in the list of operating system entries at the bottom of the file.

If the only "default" lines in your file are preceded by a # sign, then GRUB should boot the first entry in the list.

The Supergrubdisk download is small, so it should take very little time to download if you're on broadband.

D.K.

Yep...at last..finally got there..thanks for sticking with me, I just didn't see the small "default" line, I was looking for a No.in each list!
I only have the 2 OSs yet I have now 7 Ubuntus half are "recovery mode" can I just delete them?
I was actually wondering how long Hardy took to download? Is it any easier to operate?

Ubuntu is just something I play around with on rare occasions. It's interesting and something I eventually hope to get to grips with mainly because I'm fed up paying for Window's latest OSs which usually then need more upgrades and sorting out etc.
Practise I suppose.

Thanks again

fwor

If you're confident that you're never going to need to back out of a kernel upgrade (I never have) then you can delete the lines for the older kernel releases, or better, comment them out by adding a hash in front.

Hardy is good - worthwhile for the upgrades, essential for me as it has a more recent version of MythTV.

It's about the same size as most other distros - it may take many hours during the day on broadband if your ISP uses traffic shaping. It's generally better to download as a torrent overnight, or to choose the "distribution upgrade" option in Update Manager, as the Ubuntu repository servers seem able to sustain high speeds even during the daytime.

wolfman

D.K. wrote: »

Also I'm not on Hardy so I don't suppose your suggestions will work Wolfman...any idea how long it takes to download?

SuperGrub will work with anything that uses Grub. I use it for Debian too. It takes about a minute or two to download, you just need to be able to burn the ISO image to CD.

I'm a big Hardy fan now. Have always had Ubuntu on my pc since Hoary, but definitely prefer it to any other Linux distro's now. Well worth a look.

D.K.

Cheers Wolfman something else on my list