Help Me Enjoy [Install] Kubuntu Please

[elijathegold]

Say yes as you want to save the file. Terminology is a bit geeky in there aint it? Still it's no vi O_O

[logan01]

what about this at the bottom? Save modified buffer (ANSWERING "No" WILL DESTROY CHANGES) ?

[elijathegold]

Enter Yes and press return. I don't remember it showing that after saving using Ctrl + O

[logan01]

I have no idea it took.
I copied and it did copy
i hit return
I wrongly did cntrl +o instead +0
Hit return anyhow
It gives a new line to type in. It shows a zero (0)
I do the correct cntrl +0
return
cntrl +x
return

Now in the terminal window which doesn't appear to be scrollable, this is what I see:

Uncomment to disable graphical terminal (grub-pc only)
#GRUB_TERMINAL=console

# The resolution used on graphical terminal
# note that you can use only modes which your graphic card supports via VBE
# you can see them in real GRUB with the command `vbeinfo'
#GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480

# Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass "root=UUID=xxx" parameter to Linux
#GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true

# Uncomment to disable generation of recovery mode menu entries
#GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true"

# Uncomment to get a beep at grub start
#GRUB_INIT_TUNE="480 440 1"

0

[elijathegold]

So if you run sudo nano grub again, what is in there?

[logan01]

one moment.

[logan01]

It shows all that stuff and at the bottom it says Read 36 Lines

[elijathegold]

Just check at the bottom of the file to make sure there are no funny lines (my grub file is 34 lines long) if they are empty it shouldn't matter.

[logan01]

Looks good to me. I guess it just laughed at my error and marched on. If I punch out of terminal and go to /etc/default in dolphin root, will the new file be there or did we just add code and not create a file? Here it is in its entirety:

# If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update
# /boot/grub/grub.cfg.
# For full documentation of the options in this file, see:
# info -f grub -n 'Simple configuration'

GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true
GRUB_TIMEOUT=10
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

# Uncomment to enable BadRAM filtering, modify to suit your needs
# This works with Linux (no patch required) and with any kernel that obtains
# the memory map information from GRUB (GNU Mach, kernel of FreeBSD ...)
#GRUB_BADRAM="0x01234567,0xfefefefe,0x89abcdef,0xe fefefef"

# Uncomment to disable graphical terminal (grub-pc only)
#GRUB_TERMINAL=console

# The resolution used on graphical terminal
# note that you can use only modes which your graphic card supports via VBE
# you can see them in real GRUB with the command `vbeinfo'
#GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480

# Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass "root=UUID=xxx" parameter to Linux
#GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true

# Uncomment to disable generation of recovery mode menu entries
#GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true"

# Uncomment to get a beep at grub start
#GRUB_INIT_TUNE="480 440 1"

[logan01]

The file "grub" is in /default. Now I gotta go find that time thing he was talking about and see if it needs editing. Oh no, I believe that was part of the code. Never mind. Believe it was this line:

GRUB_TIMEOUT=10

[elijathegold]

So exit the editor (Ctrl + X) and then the final step which is telling grub the configuration has changed.

Run sudo update-grub

[logan01]

ok. Gotta go back in and do sudo update-grub. Thanks a bunch.

[elijathegold]

On the terminal - not the editor... I'm off to make a cup of tea.

[logan01]

Done deal. I shall now reboot and see if it killed that scrolling dos-like screen.

[logan01]

Thanks. Brit/tea? Still doing the scrolling thing. But that "wallet" security thing that pops up when kubuntu opens is maddening.