Comments on: GRUB Tutorial for Beginners

By: smith

smith — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:42:11 +0000

I found it:
but, as luck would have it, it is not in grub.conf but in /etc/gdm/custom.conf
the lines to add at the bottom are

[daemon]
TimedLoginEnable=true
TimedLogin=user <– your user-id
TimedLoginDelay=1

I set the time delay to 5 for a few days – till I was sure it was what I wanted, then I set it to 1.

maybe you can clarify this a little. It is not exactly the /boot/grub/grub.conf file, but grub must be the one in control.

Thanks

By: greg

greg — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:36:05 +0000

I found it:
but, as luck would have it, it is not in grub.conf but in /etc/gdm/custom.conf
the lines to add at the bottom are
[daemon]
TimedLoginEnable=true
TimedLogin=greg
TimedLoginDelay=1

I set the time delay to 5 for a few days – till I was sure it was what I wanted, then I set it to 1.

maybe you can clarify this a little. It is not exactly the /boot/grub/grub.conf file, but grub must be the one in control.

Thanks

By: greg

greg — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:57:10 +0000

what do i add to grub.conf to boot up straight to a default user without prompting for a password? (I did it in an older version of fedora but forgot and did not save the file, sorry)

By: Darko

Darko — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:08:13 +0000

Hello. Very good post. I have a question and hope you can help me. I want to make a grub entry for a windows partition but using UUID and don’t know how the exact syntax goes (and whether it’s possible).
So instead:
rootnoverify (sd0,0)
chainloader +1

what should I change and where to put the UUID?
Thanks in advance.

By: Madhukar Ojha

Madhukar Ojha — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 16:31:13 +0000

Hello

I have created bootable grub CD for ubuntu 9.I want to boot it from command.

But on grub prompt, error message is printed that file not found.

Thanks
Madhukar Ojha

By: Kumudini

Kumudini — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:19:25 +0000

Hi,

Thank you for the guide. I have some problem with grub loader.

The unit has Fedora 8. grub waits for a “Press any key to continue” at stage 1.5 to go to stage 2. I want to use this box in setting where no human interaction. Therefore need to boot without waiting for a key press at any stage. From stage 2.0, I can manage the timeout with grub.conf file. But do not know, how to remove the wait for the key press at stage 1.5.

Would be a great help, if I know how to solve this problem.

Thanks.

Kumudini

By: spsneo

spsneo — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:23:17 +0000

@nearownkira
Ya we can use Linux disk notation instead of UUID like this
root=/dev/sda1 instead of root=UUID=…..

Though we can always find UUID corresponding to any drive using following commands as root :
1) blkid or
2) vol_id

Anything else??

By: nearownkira

nearownkira — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:29:52 +0000

I am wondering if you can change the UUID thing to something move human readable like dev1 in GRUB.

By: spsneo

spsneo — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:49:46 +0000

@Anurag
Windows also has its own boot loader. That is why when we boot Windows from GRUB we enter the command
grub> chainloader +1
This calls the windows boot loader. Windows Bootloader’s name is NTLDR .
Anyways when you did a Windows recovery, Windows replaced its own boot loader code in MBR. So, your computer now is not able to know if there is any Linux OS installed. You can easily get back your Linux by installing GRUB.
May be I will write another Blog on this issue.
Till then you can check out this link : https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoveringUbuntuAfterInstallingWindows

By: anurag

anurag — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:41:22 +0000

Doesn’t the windows have a boot loader?i had windows and fedora on my PC.after doing a windows recovery,i was not getting any boot menu to start the linux OS.