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Configuring Grub on Ubuntu

By jelly | March 28, 2008

I configured grub so that I can pick which Hard drive to boot to. Ubuntu Linux is on hd0 and Vista is on hd1.

the grub config file is located at /boot/grub/

title        Ubuntu hardy (development branch), kernel 2.6.24-12-generic
root        (hd0,0)
kernel        /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-12-generic root=UUID=74ca9bbe-a6a5-4ecf-b0f0-4e42c3907886 ro quiet splash
initrd        /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-12-generic
quiet

title        Ubuntu hardy (development branch), kernel 2.6.24-12-generic (recovery mode)
root        (hd0,0)
kernel        /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-12-generic root=UUID=74ca9bbe-a6a5-4ecf-b0f0-4e42c3907886 ro single
initrd        /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-12-generic

title        Ubuntu hardy (development branch), memtest86+
root        (hd0,0)
kernel        /boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet

title         Windows Vista
root        (hd1,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1