[micoair]

Dear Sir(s),

I am using Ubuntu OS. The startup screen shows numerous Ubuntu software choices even though I have only the Ubuntu OS on the comp.

Please help me delete these choices and limit to only one.

regards
micoair

[060456F]

Welcome to TSG

I want to know whether you have already installed the Ubuntu or trying to install. If you were trying you get lot of options. Enter 'install' while highlighting that and proceed . Otherwise if you get this after install state what you see ?

[saikee]

They are just different kernels if you get stuck with a problem on the screen. Also the latest kernel is always buggy and may not work satisfactorily so the stable version is listed too.

If you don't like to see them just add a "#" in front of the booting choice to disable it in /boot/grub/menu.lst, but remember the following

(1) a "#" in menu.lst tells Grub to ignore that statement
(2) Each choice of booting starts with the "title" statement until the last line before the next "title" statement. So generally to disable a booting alternative is by pre-fix a "#" to 3 to 4 lines.
(3) You can re-activate a booting choice by removing the "#" at the front
(4) You can only modify the menu.lst in a terminal and need the root privilege to touch any system file. To get it in Ubuntu you type

sudo su

and followed by your user password.

Afterward you can modify the menu.lst with an editor. A graphic one, which is easy for most users is gedit. So try this command

gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst