Having trouble with boot menu

Question

Hey i'm having trouble booting to Ubuntu. Please bear with me it's my first time posting here.

I was going through a couple of tutorials on speeding up your system and edited one of the values in the grub file located /etc/default/grub

Now the GRUB_TIMEOUT is set to '0' and when I start up my laptop it goes to the default os boot menu which is Ubuntu. But it boots to Windows instead of Ubuntu which makes it very difficult to fix from Windows.

I have downloaded ext2explore to change the value which I can do but I can't update the grub so it doesn't work.

Thanks for any help or suggestions.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 24 '13 at 20:33

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Try to run Ubuntu from a DVD or USB and use the program "Boot-Repair". That should fix the GRUB for you.

answered May 24 '13 at 20:33

aXept

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I have a boot disk with ubuntu on it. Should I use that? – user161535 May 24 '13 at 20:34
Boot from it, and select "try ubuntu". When it starts run the program. – aXept May 24 '13 at 20:35
How did it go? :) – aXept May 24 '13 at 21:02
Well... I'm in try ubuntu now and im going to get boot repair now – user161535 May 24 '13 at 21:06
Were do i get boot-repair? – user161535 May 24 '13 at 21:07
http://askubuntu.com/a/292783/21195 – Rodrigo Oliveira May 24 '13 at 21:08
Should be ready for use all ready? – aXept May 24 '13 at 21:09
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair && sudo apt-get update then sudo apt-get install -y boot-repair && (boot-repair &) – aXept May 24 '13 at 21:10
Got it... little loadie thing is doing is business now – user161535 May 24 '13 at 21:13
im going to reboot now – user161535 May 24 '13 at 21:15
Good..Hope it works :) – aXept May 24 '13 at 21:16
IT WORkS :D your a life saver... thanks a ton, also for walking me threw it all :D – user161535 May 24 '13 at 21:21
No problem! :D Happy to help! – aXept May 24 '13 at 21:23
Btw, make the answer green :P – aXept May 24 '13 at 22:12

Having trouble with boot menu

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