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ok...i'm a noob at linnux and i'm in a administration class for central campus in Des Moines IA, well no one knows how to use Linnux so we have to ...
- 11-10-2006 #1Just Joined!
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Boot Manager Password
ok...i'm a noob at linnux and i'm in a administration class for central campus in Des Moines IA, well no one knows how to use Linnux so we have to teach ourselves...i'm running SUse. 10.1 and i'm trying to set a boot password for windows from the grub shell...well i typed the password and it says to paste the encrypted code into the global section of the menu.1st file. well i cannot find the menu.1st file in...could someone please tell me how to get to that file...i already searched for it...it didn't come up as anything
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menu.lst file is in /boot/grub folder.
EDIT : its not menu.1st (first). its menu.lst (.LST)
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that didn't work...it won't let me change anything in the document...could someone please explain to me why this isn't working the way the book is telling me to do it
- 11-10-2006 #4Super Moderator
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you must be root to edit system files.
type this code in terminal/konsole
su - command gives root privileges. be very careful while editing system files.Code:su - gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
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