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johnny

Member

Registered: 2015-02-03

Posts: 9

Grub: 2 versions of slitaz? why?

Why do i have two versions of Slitaz at the Grub boot screen to select from?

they're both slitaz-2.6.37 but one version has vmlinuz in it?

what are the differences? can i delete one? (newbie)

I don't wan't an OS selection either lol just wan't it to boot straight into slitaz

johnny

Member

Registered: 2015-02-03

Posts: 9

Re: Grub: 2 versions of slitaz? why?

thinking it could also be affecting the lappy performance too? anyone?

mojo

Administrator

Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 2,174

Re: Grub: 2 versions of slitaz? why?

Consider yourself lucky the menu entry boots the computer.

Sometimes the installer totally fails configuring /boot/grub/menu.lst and the computer won't boot.

# out the boot stanza you don't want to see in menu.lst and it won't appear in the menu.

Make sure the visible entry boots the computer,if not hit the e key and remove the # hit enter and b to boot.

This is a temporary edit,you have to edit menu.lst to make it stick.

I don't recommend disabling  the menu, sometimes you need to edit the menu as above or to disable xorg with "screen=text" if the video craps out and you boot to a blank screen. If you can boot to console you can fix the problem, if the menus disabled you have to boot a live cd,mount the partition holding slitaz and re-enable the menu before you can fix the problem. I reduce the timeout from 8 seconds to 2 seconds which gives me enough time to hit the e key to edit the menu if necessary.