[solved]Question about GRUB/boot settings

[Jonas]

Hello

I've had a dualboot XP/kubuntu running for almost a year now but I've hardly ever used XP during that time so yesterday I used gparted and cleared that partition (not sure that was wise/correct but I got a suggestion it was 'ok' way). Now I would like to remove the WinXP in the grub menu.lst and I just want to make sure I don't screw things up (better safe then sorry)

I've read the GRUB how-to Section 4, could I just remove the windows section in the menu.lst? or comment out the Windows section with #?
Am I wrong or wouldn't it be quite harmful since the windows partition is the first on the drive ?

HD 'looking' like this (according to gparted - diff. in blkid though)

[ ::::: Ext4(clean-former XP)::::::] [::::::Ext3(KubuntuOS)::::::] [::swap::]

Edit; oh and I've done a copy of the /grub/menu.lst
.. and I want to be able to say that I'm completely windoze free

blkid

/dev/sda1: UUID="895a195f-4512-41f5-975c-10ce02e4eb5e" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda5: UUID="c9c11a63-a602-43f4-9c52-5a56c01469c2" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sda6: UUID="52f21270-0fc1-4211-baef-fbf75922b7b7" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="WD USB 2" UUID="DD0D-6EF1" TYPE="vfat"

GRUB menu.lst

## ## End Default Options ##

title		Ubuntu 9.10, kernel 2.6.31-16-generic
uuid		52f21270-0fc1-4211-baef-fbf75922b7b7
kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-16-generic root=UUID=52f21270-0fc1-4211-baef-fbf75922b7b7 ro quiet splash 
initrd		/boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-16-generic
quiet

title		Ubuntu 9.10, kernel 2.6.31-16-generic (recovery mode)
uuid		52f21270-0fc1-4211-baef-fbf75922b7b7
kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-16-generic root=UUID=52f21270-0fc1-4211-baef-fbf75922b7b7 ro single
initrd		/boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-16-generic

****[etc .. several more kernel-boot-options ...]****

title		Ubuntu 9.10, memtest86+
uuid		52f21270-0fc1-4211-baef-fbf75922b7b7
kernel		/boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet

### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST

# This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian
# ones.
title		Other operating systems:
root


# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/sda1
title		Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
root		(hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader	+1

[Qqmike]

Re: Question about GRUB/boot settings

Yes, Jonas, just delete the entry.
Open Konqueror or Dolphin as root:
kdesudo konqueror (kdesudo dolphin)
Open /boot/grub/menu.lst
Delete this:

title Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
root (hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1

File > Save, File Exit

Option to try first:
In theory, you should be able to boot into your Kubuntu and issue the following command which would also generate a new menu.lst for you (you might try this first, just as an experiment, maybe save a backup copy of your current menu.lst first):
sudo update-grub

[Jonas]

Re: Question about GRUB/boot settings

Thank you!

sudo update-grub didn't make it happen(was that for GRUB2 ? - I still have GRUB1, a remain from Intripid I guess) ... but the deletion of win entry did however

on the side note I did it the cli way with nano, and it kind of makes me feel a bit more 'at ease' with Kubuntu, and I feel more like a real penguin


Can't wait for the Lucid(?) release to get some use for that disk space .. or is there a unstable out already ? :O

Happy Penguin - officially free from the chains of Windoze

[Qqmike]

Re: [solved]Question about GRUB/boot settings

sudo update-grub will sometimes work for GRUB Legacy (it is supposed to work). It does seem to work pretty good for GRUB 2. As for using GRUB Legacy, Jonas, I think that's fine, maybe even smart, until they fully get the bugs out of GRUB 2. I have a feeling that GRUB Legacy will be around for quite some time to come.