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Ubuntu : How To Edit Your Boot Loader Without Committing Suicide!

Posted by Pubudu Kodikara on Feb 10, 2010 in Linux, Linux, Software, Tips and Tricks (Hacks) | 7 comments

For novice users, dealing with Linux system files means complete suicide! Specially when it comes to the boot-loader. Imagine that you have Windows and Linux.. You want to set Windows as your default OS in the boot loader…..

OMG! My Boot Loader Was Corrupted! I Can’t Log into My Linux System!

Posted by Pubudu Kodikara on Jan 30, 2010 in Linux, Tips and Tricks (Hacks) | 8 comments

What will you do if your Grub Boot Loader was corrupted? The most probable answer will be “Hitting my head in my keyboard ‘n’ number of times”. Most of us think that, if our boot loader get corrupted, we are doomed! So, we re-format our systems! But, don’t you know that, sometimes we can fix a corrupted boot loader?

10 Must Read Geeky Articles for Ubuntu Users (Tricks and Hacks) : Part I

Posted by Pubudu Kodikara on Nov 5, 2009 in Linux, Tips and Tricks (Hacks) | 0 comments

These days Ubuntu‘s popularity is growing like a wildfire! Many people use Ubuntu as their primary operating system… But, do you know about Ubuntu? Do you know everything? I don’t think so… because you have many more to learn! Today I have collected some articles with great tips and hacks about Ubuntu, which you might find interesting and geeky….

Lets install the latest Grub 2 on Ubuntu 9.04

Posted by Pubudu Kodikara on Oct 24, 2009 in Linux, Tips and Tricks (Hacks) | 2 comments

gnu-head-sm Most of the Linux distributions that we use today, have the GRand Unified Boot-loader as their default boot-loader. Recently the developers of GRUB (GNU) have released the latest version GRUB 2 which have lots of improvements compared to its previous version. By default Ubuntu 9.04 comes with the old GRUBbootloader, so today we are going to see how to install the new GRUB 2 on our favourite Ubuntu 9.04!