Whenever I run the Ubuntu automated update program and it installs a new kernel version, It screws up my GRUB menu.lst. Not only does it create multiple entries for Ubuntu, it deletes the entries for the other Windows OSes (XP and Dell Utility Partition). Is there a way to set the autoupdater to not screw around with the bootloader menu, or is it just better to update the kernel manually?
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Jump to PostThis may not help but I use Kubuntu (very similiar) with the KDE interface (version 7.1 is downloadable) and this does not screw up or change the grub startup loader; I have both XP and kununtu on this hard disk and a recovery partition.
Jump to PostThis may not help but I use Kubuntu (very similiar) with the KDE interface (version 7.1 is downloadable) and this does not screw up or change the grub startup loader; I have both XP and kununtu on this hard disk and a recovery partition.
To my knowledge, the only functional …
Jump to Postin the grub configuration file you can set it so that there are entries that are always present and are not regenerated when the kernel is updated. Google it.
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