Linux Mint 8 - GRUB editing and saving

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jerry486

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Hi,

I have notice I had problems starting linux from the GRUB menu. It just went black and nothing happened. I pressed E in the GRUB menu to edit the entry and have found this line:

Code: 
linux	/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic root=UUID=26656dae-ecc1-44a0-8872-edfbed7f81af ro   quiet splash

I have figured that the problem was the QUIET_SPLASH and deleted the words. Then pressed keys to boot and it worked.

The problem is, I HAVE TO DO IT ALL THE TIME ..

I would just love to edit the /boot/grub/grub.cfg file but it won't let me save the changes (even as root), as this file gets automatically generated.

I have found nothing in /etc/grub.d files and nothing in /etc/default/grub which could lead to disabling this QUIET SPLASH option.

Can anyone tell me how to do it? Or maybe there is a command to update changes in the GRUB command line itself?

Would apreciate your help as this is quite annoying.

PS. as far as I remember there used to be a MENU.LST in grub? what happened to that?
 
I don't use Mint, but if it does not let you modify the file as root, that is just plain weird.

Can you show me the output of the file's permissions?

Code: 
ls -alO /boot/grub/grub.conf

or in your case, grub.cfg if that is what it is called
 
yepp that solved it,

Code: 
chmod 777 /boot/grub/grub.cfg
gedit /boot/grub/grub.cfg

edited
saved

Code: 
chmod 444 /boot/grub/grub.cfg
to leave it as it was

thanks!
 
jerry486 said:
yepp that solved it,

Code: 
chmod 777 /boot/grub/grub.cfg
gedit /boot/grub/grub.cfg

edited
saved

Code: 
chmod 444 /boot/grub/grub.cfg
to leave it as it was

thanks!
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yeah was going to see if it was writable, what tipped me off is the ro in the code you posted typically stands for read only. My second guess was file system corruption, but looks like that did it.
 
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