There is a third method however. Simply move your intened default stanze to the top of the list. When you do, you will probably want to either commenbt out or remove the lines “title Other operating systems’ and ‘root’. If root is not removed, the menu will likely fail and you will have to boot off the live CD to correct it. Be careful. Also, remove the # from in front of the line after Pretty colors… “color cyan/blue white/blue” and your menu will be considerably easier to read.

Additionally, as I am using a mix of Serial ATA’s and IDE’s, the drive holding Ubuntu (or grub) has to the the Serial ATA (SATA) as it will boot before the IDE’s as it doesn’t use the BIOS. Also then, the drive numbering used in menu will need to be altered. As example, if the SATA is actually hd2, and there are IDE’s hd0 and hd1, the numbering for the SATA (by virtue of how it boots) needs to be 0 with the other drives shifted likewise. Do your research on this if possible before attempting it. I didn’t find anything to guide me, so I had to use a process of error correction to finally get it.

Additionally, drive mapping is suggested when other things won’t work. If Ubuntu is loaded last, as it should be, the menu grub creates will be closer than one you might construct from scratch. Doing a quad boot with those operating systems is not something I would suggest to a beginner–especially a beginner in Ubuntu Linux as the available documentation often is not intended for beginners, even when it suggests it is. As example, the doc’s do a good job of presenting the necessities, such as the info for creating an appropriate Windows stanza, but they don’t tell you what a ’stanza’ is. They have lines like this…

“type this to find grub: find /boot/grub/stage1″

Yet they forget to say why you need to do this, where to type it, to hit ENTER at the end of a line (no, it is NOT assumable) what it does, and what both grub and stage1 indicate. I’m not sure what people consider a beginner, but I would see them as someone who just started yesterday, and not expect them to have ANY understanding of the language nor knowledge of the the applications within Ubuntu.

Linux is not for beginners or those without patience. However, taken slowly (is there any other way?) Linux can be mastered, and it is an incredible operating system. I need an akward system of a virtual machines and hidden directories to do my snooping and downloading online when I am in Windows (even using Firefox) but not in Linux. Even OS X (my Hackintosh Apple x86 system) can be subject to the stick-it-to-you malware advertising that abounds today. I hate that passionately! The programmers who actually provide such code are SICK! They seem to have no sensitivity toward damaging someone–certainly a psycopathic trait

Maybe you should look into getting more fans

Or using tightened methods with VNC is okay. But if you are going to go that far, might as well be using something better than VNC. Such as FreeNX.