How can i edit grub on mandriva 2009

[Kolaper]

Hi, i'm from Colombia. and i have a problemm.


is my first time with Mandriva and I would know how can i edit the grub file, i mean, like root, because have a problem starting windows (for my family).

When i tried to edit with kwrite on root mode show me this error:

kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/klauncher
klauncher(6465) kdemain: No DBUS session-bus found. Check if you have started the DBUS server.

Sorry for my bad english.

Version: Mandriva 2009.

thnx

[oz]

Welcome to the forums!

You can gain root permissions by going to a terminal and entering the su command:

su

...enter the root password when requested.

Then you can enter the following command to edit the menu.lst file:

nano /boot/grub/menu.lst

You can substitute the text editor of your choice for nano.

...when done editing, save the file and reboot.

For more info on working with the Linux command line, check here:

LinuxCommand.org: Learn the Linux command line. Write shell scripts.

[Kolaper]

What is nano?

[root@localhost grub]# nano menu.lst
bash: nano: command not found

[oz]

What is nano?

It's a text editor. See above:

You can substitute the text editor of your choice for nano.

[oz]

If you don't have nano, you can try vi, vim, or pico, with pico probably being the easiest for new linux users.

[Kolaper]

.... i don't understand


Nano and all the rest are not incluyed on mandriva?

[Kolaper]

Vi works! thanks


how can i save the changes?

[oz]

.... i don't understand


Nano and all the rest are not incluyed on mandriva?

Not sure as I've not run it in about 7 years, or more. Maybe someone currently running it can answer on that. Most distributions do at least come with vi, though.

[oz]

Try this for saving:

:x

Enter vimtutor in the terminal for more info on using vi / vim.

[Jonathan183]

I think esc : w q should do it ...
I thought mandriva was using grub2 so the config file might be grub.conf instead of menu.lst ... some of the terminology is different as well example