ubuntu boot problem

[joe.s-b]

I have installed Lynux Ubuntu alongside
Windows XP. They both work corectly but Ubuntu always boots unless I make sure that I select Windows each time I start up. I have used a recommended method to change this using Ubuntu, Applications, Accessories, Terminal then typing sudo gedit/boot.grub.menu.1st. This file is not recognised by Lynux so any ideas please. This is not serious but a real nuisance when I forget to select correct boot on start-up

[ChuckFickens]

sudo gedit/boot.grub.menu.1st

is totally wrong!

Open the terminal and type the following

sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

[joe.s-b]

Thank you ChuckFikens. I did in fact use / and not . to access the file. When I posed my query the / and . got mixed due to careless typing. However Ubuntu did not access the file but sent password@password-desktop (Password is not my password of course) However i inputted my correct password but Ubuntu did not accept this command so I.m still lost.

[ChuckFickens]

Hmmm, works on mine!

Try this instead (though it should be doing excatly the same thing)

goto the terminal and type (press enter after each line)

cd /
cd boot
cd grub
sudo gedit menu.1st

[Prescott]

Hi,
I installed Ubuntu alongside XP some time ago.
the trouble I had was that it filled the screen, and I had difficulty doing anything with it. I have since uninstalled it but am sorry to do so because i believe Linux should be better than windows.
any helpful advice much appreciated.

[joe.s-b]

Thank again. Whatever I input I get 'command not found'. I think that I will sleep on this. I am certainly not alone in finding unexplained difficulties with Lynux but I'll try again sometime. Cheers.

[ChuckFickens]

at what point are you getting command not found?

[joe.s-b]

I am getting command not found after I enter the appropriate information which I have checked and had checked several times to ensure that it is correct.

[ChuckFickens]

ah yes appropriate information.... always a great help in trying to work out what you may be doing wrong!

[joe.s-b]

sorry - I don't understand your last comment.

[ChuckFickens]

if you open the terminal and enter the following at what point are you getting command not found? (saying after entering appropriate information is not helpful.... obviously it's not the appropriate information otherwise it would work)

Remember press enter after each line

cd /
cd boot
cd grub
sudo gedit menu.1st

[joe.s-b]

Have tried again and this time I get the menu. Now I need to find out what to do with it and how to sue it.. Many thanks so far