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- boldfire, on 11/08/2009, -2/+189What a lovely looking website
- TheBigDiz, on 11/08/2009, -4/+71Time for lwn.net to contract a web designer from this century.
- procuro, on 11/08/2009, -2/+51You could just install it from within windows using Wubi (already located in the ISO). It sets windows as the default OS in grub and allows you to uninstall it within windows like you would any other program. It's a pretty easy solution to that problem and doesn't require a separate drive or partition.
http://wubi-installer.org/ - KAMiKAZOW, on 11/08/2009, -0/+41What's with all those Ubuntu-related comments here? The article is about what Google does to the kernel, not about Ubuntu as a whole.
- morninglorii, on 11/08/2009, -0/+37This article is about some very detailed and involved kernel design issues, and yet, most of the comments here are "Oh I trued Ubuntu once and I couldn't get it to work :(". I love Digg, but this really makes me miss the early days.
- dengzhi, on 11/08/2009, -0/+33looks like something from the 90's
- sekander94, on 11/08/2009, -1/+31Open
/boot/grub/menu.lst
The line that says "Default 0" needs to be changed to the number of XP, ie if it's the 5th option, set it to "Default 4" - Koushiro, on 11/08/2009, -16/+44I switched to Ubuntu about the time I got accepted into the windows 7 beta. I wanted something new but there weren't drivers for vista for my mobo and the SATA hard drive.
It does pretty much everything I ask of it. - willdelaney, on 11/08/2009, -2/+28I thought geocities shut down last week?
- steviesteveo, on 11/08/2009, -4/+27Cool story, but isn't this about how Google uses Linux?
- pyro0, on 11/08/2009, -4/+24linux geeks have a superior sense of design.
- jokr004, on 11/08/2009, -1/+21dugg for being "WAY too geeky"
this is the kind of thing digg used to be about - fwertz, on 11/08/2009, -1/+20Dugg for a step in the right direction. Sort of understating the grandeur of google/linux kernel though. Nonetheless, a good first step!
- zsenike, on 11/08/2009, -5/+23linux is ***** for lazy and mostly for stupid people. (generaly who is not lazy and/or stupid it knows very well why is linux better for one thing and windows for another).
PS: Prim system: Ubuntu (2 years)
Sec system: XP (6 years) - sej7278, on 11/08/2009, -7/+24i think you'll find on digg that linux doesn't exist, its actually called "ubuntu", so every linux story becomes some ubuntu fanboy's story of switching from windoze, no matter how irrelevant.
- andsalvatierra, on 11/08/2009, -0/+15Eh, I hear ya.
Been an open-source enthusiast for more than a decade now, and one thing that frequently stands out to me is how quite a number of websites in the community take good design for granted.
"Content is King". True, but if a medium is hard to read or an eyesore, that makes it harder for a reader to efficiently absorb it.
Readability matters more than it's given credit for in these instances. - protargol, on 11/08/2009, -1/+16"Whatever, Linux sucks because [enter Ubuntu support question you're too lazy to post on Ubuntu Forums]. I don't understand why people like it."
Brilliant way to get instant tech support - codereview, on 11/08/2009, -0/+14Actually, as of 9.10, Ubuntu uses Grub 2 (or 1.9x), which uses /boot/grub/grub.conf which has a different syntax (it looks more like a scripting language than a "pure" config file).
The entry is:
set default="0"
with the "menuentry" sections being the boot menu entries. - raydeen, on 11/08/2009, -1/+12If you open up your Grub menu (/boot/grub/menu.lst) you'll see a line near the top that looks like this:
default 0
If you look at the list of OS choices, you should be able to count from 0 to the number of your XP listing and replace the '0' above with the number of your XP listing. For example, if I wanted to default to XP, I'd change default to equal 9 as XP is the 10th title in the list (starting with 0).
title Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS, kernel 2.6.24-25-generic
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-25-generic root=UUID=77bac96e-9b29-48ce-a996-21e5fd234d2c ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-25-generic
quiet
title Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS, kernel 2.6.24-25-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-25-generic root=UUID=77bac96e-9b29-48ce-a996-21e5fd234d2c ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-25-generic
title Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS, kernel 2.6.24-24-generic
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-24-generic root=UUID=77bac96e-9b29-48ce-a996-21e5fd234d2c ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-24-generic
quiet
title Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS, kernel 2.6.24-24-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-24-generic root=UUID=77bac96e-9b29-48ce-a996-21e5fd234d2c ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-24-generic
title Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS, kernel 2.6.24-23-generic
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-23-generic root=UUID=77bac96e-9b29-48ce-a996-21e5fd234d2c ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-23-generic
quiet
title Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS, kernel 2.6.24-23-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-23-generic root=UUID=77bac96e-9b29-48ce-a996-21e5fd234d2c ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-23-generic
title Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS, memtest86+
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet
### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
# This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian
# ones.
title Other operating systems:
root
# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/sda1
title Dell Utility Partition
root (hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1
# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/sda2
title Windows XP Media Center Edition
root (hd0,1)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1
And ALWAYS back up important system files before editing. In this case, I'd back it up by typing
cp /boot/grub/menu.list /boot/grub/menu.list.bck
or something similar. That way if it fubars, I can get my old menu back. - whitebeauty, on 11/08/2009, -2/+13whats the error?
- RJ0534, on 11/09/2009, -0/+11Personally, I think the site could be improved by some flaming text and flashing light gif's
- linuxpenguin, on 11/08/2009, -1/+10Because many people only have experience with Linux in the form of Ubuntu Linux. So they connect Ubuntu = Linux.
- weeFred, on 11/08/2009, -0/+9When digg started out it was pure tech, I miss those days.
- Mike9824, on 11/08/2009, -1/+10raydeen: I believe you can access your Windows files from within Ubuntu when you use Wubi. I used it about a year ago and I was able to do so, simply go to Places > Computer > Filesystem > Host
- MWeather, on 11/08/2009, -0/+8"how much market share does linux have ??"
Quick question, who makes better music: Britney Spears or Mozart? - TheMarenum, on 11/08/2009, -0/+8^^^^Even through digg it's the most helpful community ever^^^^
- ArthurSucks, on 11/08/2009, -1/+9@kutchbhikutchbhi
You are entitled to your own opinion, no matter how wrong you are. - stufflebean, on 11/08/2009, -1/+8I'm pretty sure that only applies if they distribute their version of the kernel. Otherwise, they're free to do whatever they want with it in-house.
- raydeen, on 11/08/2009, -0/+7Ding dang sekander94 beat me to it.
- ArthurSucks, on 11/08/2009, -0/+6"how much market share does linux have?"
We're talking about quality, not popularity. I'm sorry that you have troubles thinking for yourself.
You just said:
"typical linux loser who starts insulting instead of facing the truth"
Now you claim that we're:
"***** idiots" because we don't agree with you?
Alrighty, no more food for this troll! - Warom, on 11/08/2009, -0/+6There is another way to dual boot other than the ways above. Instead of going Grub->Windows Boot Loader you can in fact go the other way Windows Boot Loader -> Grub. Basically, all you need to do is at the last step of installing Ubuntu when all the settings are displayed, click on "Advanced..." and install the boot loader to the same partition as the one for Ubuntu. Then reboot (you should go straight to Windows as it is still the default boot loader), download and install a program called EasyBCD. This will allow you to add an option to the windows bootloader to boot Ubuntu.
It also makes it easier to remove Ubuntu if you don't like it, simply delete the partition and delete the menu option. No more Grub errors if you ever want to remove Ubuntu.
I am sure there is a better guide than mine, just search. - mickstephenson, on 11/08/2009, -0/+6@codereview, you shouldn't edit /boot/grub/grub.cfg as it is generated automatically when "update-grub" is ran using information in "/etc/default/grub" and various files in "/etc/grub.d/" and as soon as you get a kernel update grub.cfg will regenerate from scratch and all your changes to it will be wiped
- mickstephenson, on 11/08/2009, -1/+7If you're gonna be that condescending you should at least be correct and try reading the other posts before commenting.
- rmxz, on 11/08/2009, -2/+8Wonder if Google would have an easier time if more of those patches were merged upstream. And if so - where the bottleneck is at getting those patches contributed back.
- publiclurker, on 11/08/2009, -0/+6A lot of these patches are probably proprietary to how they manage their network and would not be the sort of things you would want to merge back into the main code line, even if they were wanted.
I would certainly hope that they merge back in all bug and security fixes, however. It really wouldn't make sense for them to hold onto those, as doing so requires you to have to do the same changes every 17 months. - dawnraid101, on 11/08/2009, -3/+9And this is why Linux isnt mainstream.
- Speedy7, on 11/08/2009, -0/+6Ubuntu 9.10 uses Grub2 which uses a different method. It was through editing this that I lost my bootloader.
There's not much written on the net about Grub2 manipulation. - rmxz, on 11/08/2009, -2/+7For what? Maintaining many extra patches but being slow at contributing about 200,000 lines of patches back to the project?
- linuxpenguin, on 11/08/2009, -0/+5Except that Google does contribute some changes.
Learn to read. It's not saying that they don't give ANYTHING back. It's saying that MOST of their changes aren't sent back. - mickstephenson, on 11/08/2009, -0/+5See my reply to sekander94 for instructions on how to change it
- mickstephenson, on 11/08/2009, -0/+5On Karmic grub2 is used and menu.lst is antiquated.
Instead the setting you have to change is in the file "/etc/default/grub"
And change the line "GRUB_DEFAULT=0" in the same way as sekander94 suggests, then save the file and run "sudo update-grub". - feignNU, on 11/08/2009, -0/+5@GiggleStick
So when people knowledgeable about Linux try to give help, people like you bitch about how it's just too much jargon. And if they instead try to refer you to a manual or something that could help, you bitch about how they're elitist snobs who just belittle those that don't know everything already. The bottom line is that computers are technical devices, and trying to do something like dual booting two operating systems is a technical undertaking. This isn't the kind of thing where there can possibly be a "point and click" solution. It's not possible for it to "just work".
@dawnraid101
The problem Speedy is having has pretty much nothing to do with Linux itself. He's trying to dual boot (which can be tricky regardless of the operating systems involved) so his issue is with the boot loader, GRUB. If you tried to dual boot windows and OSX (and I mean actually dual booting, not using a virtual machine), and you had problems, the solutions to those problems would be just as technical. - GiggleStick, on 11/08/2009, -0/+4Does anybody remember that Mac Commercial where a presenter on the stage can't get his Windows PC to work, and everybody starts yelling jargon at him, like "Add blah blah blah to your Autoexec.bat file"?
- vpendse, on 11/08/2009, -0/+4tru dat
- alpha88, on 11/08/2009, -0/+4"...When LWN was initially designed, at the end of 1997, it was..."
Looks like it was never updated. - dengzhi, on 11/09/2009, -0/+4loffle
- teedayf, on 11/08/2009, -2/+5And this is exactly why I don't like Linux distributions for every-day, generic use. For changing such a simple, essential setting, I should've have to crawl through walls of text in google explaining me the syntax of a config file and how I should edit it just to set my boot priority the way I want.
- championchap, on 11/08/2009, -0/+3Honestly, it put me off of Linux a bit when I was first looking into it.
Every website looked like it was either a million years out of date, or made by somebody trying to make a quick buck.
I'm sure i'm not the only person who went onto the Debian site and went "..and they want me to install this on my computer? They can't even make a nice website.." - linuxpenguin, on 11/08/2009, -0/+3You're skewing the facts though. Google does contribute changes back. It's just that the percentage of changes that they contribute is NOTHING compared to the number of changes they make.
People who don't develop software in a company setting don't understand this, but this isn't a backhanded jab at the open-source community or anything like that. This isn't as simple as "we made these changes, so now we can just hand them to the community" - Linux is not Google's business, and they aren't planning to get into that business. They release a few of their changes that they feel might be really useful to others, and they keep the rest to themselves. Not because they're greedy - but because they will look more like they're taking advantage of the community if they release changes without providing any support, than they will if they release only a few changes and make sure that they are able to provide support if necessary.
This is called "business". Google's business is with the services it provides. Other stuff comes second. Red Hat's business is with creating a Linux distro that others want to use, which is why they release so many patches - their goal is to make their name as a major Linux contributor with a great, well-supported Linux distro. Google's goal is to make (well, keep) their name as a great search engine that delivers fast, accurate results and to create online services that offer great benefit to both users and advertisers alike. - DavidGX, on 11/08/2009, -0/+3All digg does nowadays is post retarded ***** and steal from reddit.
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