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   From: Hadron    
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   Subject: Re: Editing menu.lst   
   Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 13:18:15 +0100   
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   ace  writes:   
      
   > I want to edit the file menu.lst, which for   
   > some reason needs root privileges to edit.   
   >   
   > I opened the terminal and typed   
   > edit boot/grub/menu.lst preceded   
   > by sudo, gksudo, sudo nano, etc.   
   > and none of them worked.   
   > Can someone tell me the proper   
   > command to edit this file and   
   > save it after editing?   
      
   I would strongly recommend you google up an explanation of the Linux   
   filesystem. If you are unable to type a fully qualified file path then   
   editing menu.lst as root is potentially very dangerous.   
      
   What did "not worked" mean? When asking a technical question its better   
   to be more specific e.g   
      
   I typed   
      
   sudo nano boot/grub/menu.list   
      
   and got "menu.lst file not found" returned, what is wrong? In which case 100000   
   posters would point out you didnt fully qualiy the pathname and the   
   correct  solution is:   
      
   sudo nano /boot/grub/menu.list   
      
   (note the preceeding forward slash).   
      
      
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