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| 496414 | 2006-11-05 03:39:00 | I get an authentication failure when I try su - and permission denied when I try edit any of the menu.lst :( | jermsie (6820) | ||
| 496415 | 2006-11-05 03:49:00 | I'm not really sure what happened when I got mine done...it was Jen being very patient with me and worked me thru it all. I SWEAR I did it right time after time! Somehow, I guess I got a space where it didn't belong (can't see how I did that though), and (of course!) the last attempt was the one that worked. I think this: Linux does not allow any sloppy texting. If you aren't in the correct editing box, then it won't work either. I have much...much....much to learn of things Linux.....can I get a brain stemcell transplant from Jen? Just a tiny few cells would work. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 496416 | 2006-11-05 04:34:00 | I get an authentication failure when I try su - and permission denied when I try edit any of the menu.lst That just sounds like you haven't achieved root permissions. Try this: Open up a konsole (terminal window). At the $prompt enter in: kdesu kwrite /boot/grub/menu.lst You will get a window popping open asking for root's password. Make sure you use the root password and not your own password. You should then see menu.lst open in KWrite and you can add the line: default 1 Note: if your section like below is not the second title listed, then you need to use the appropriate number to allow for that: title Windows at hda1 rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 Then save and close the window. |
Jen (38) | ||
| 496417 | 2006-11-05 06:03:00 | I posted a thread on the australian whirlpool forum and got this: $ gksudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst Seems to have worked. I got this response from someone after i had said it was successful.. "bear in mind that putting windows at the top means that whenever you do a kernel update, you'll have to re-enter windows as an item --- it automatically removes it during the update" |
jermsie (6820) | ||
| 496418 | 2006-11-05 06:12:00 | $ gksudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst Seems to have worked. I got this response from someone after i had said it was successful.. "bear in mind that putting windows at the top means that whenever you do a kernel update, you'll have to re-enter windows as an item --- it automatically removes it during the update"I take it from the gksudo and gedit that you are running Gnome with most likely Ubuntu? That is why the commands I was giving Joe for a KDE system under Mepis didn't work for you. Ubuntu uses sudo and not su for changing to root, and Ubuntu does not have kdesu nor kwrite as they are both KDE applications. You should of mentioned this and not assume what works for one distro will work exactly the same for another. :) Did you actually copy the Windows section to the top position in grub.conf rather than use the default option? |
Jen (38) | ||
| 496419 | 2006-11-05 06:13:00 | Gnome (or any of the gtk based Desktop Environments - e.g. Ubuntu, FC3,4,5 by default etc), then you will use gksudo to obtain root permissions KDE based distros (such as Mepis, Kubuntu etc) use kdesu However, I don't understand why su - doesn't work. Always has for me (when using GTK based) back in the FC days (Hmm, just noticed Jens post, and the fact su doesn't work with Ubuntu) |
Myth (110) | ||
| 496420 | 2006-11-05 06:34:00 | su does work with Ubuntu if you set a root password. | Erayd (23) | ||
| 496421 | 2006-11-05 09:00:00 | *hits fist on forehead* haha.. here's to my skim reading! | jermsie (6820) | ||
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