Saturday, August 6, 2011

Linux: Grub Loader Order & Keyboard Problem

Good afternoon, dudes,


After a long time cracking up my head with the GRUB loader order because i was having some serious problems with my keyboard in the console, i got really pissed off and was almost sending Debian by the Windows (got it?), but today i just got it right.


So i'm going to spill the milk and give a hand for these two situations:


GRUB BOOT LOADER ORDER:


    Commands you will do:
        1) ENTER AS "root": 
            1.1) su
            1.2) "enter with you password"
        2) GET IN THE GRUB DIRECTORY: cd /boot/grub
        3) FIND OUT IF YOU HAVE THE ARCHIVE: ls | grep grub
            3.1) IF (grub.cfg == EXISTS)
                         EXECUTE: vi grub.cfg
                   ELSE
                         TRY TO FIND THE RIGHT ARCHIVE TO EDIT
        4) LOOK FOR THE TITLES, THE LINES WILL START WITH "menuentry 'the_name_of_OS' "
        5)COUNT HOW MANY "menuentry" ARE THERE AND CHANGE THE LINE:
            "set default="NUMBER OF THE DEFAULT" "
        6)PRESS "Esc" , PRESS ":x" , PRESS <Enter>
        7) Mazel Tov, dudes! Just restart your equipment and start a fiesta, because this baby is done.


PS.1: If you don't like the title or just want change the title of the OS in the boot loader, you can change it when you get in STEP 4).


PS.2: Remember that you have to count the boot order from 0. So if you have  3 OSs and you want to select the third in the list you'll put "2" in STEP 5).




CONSOLE KEYBOARD PROBLEM:


Well, i went looking all over Google and the guys had some real fancy stuff coming up to just resolve the problems, but as i'm not quite a specialist in the Linux-way of doing things, so i found a real simple way of editing the system files (that's why i was able to adjust the boot loader).


When you get to the file you want, just use:


      gedit <THE BLOODY FILE YOU WANT>


That's it, bros.


Hasta la vista, babes.

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