I never meant to 'run' grub, my post has been about running a reinstall to
replace it with an appropriate setup.

Anyway, I've now got too many menu items in grub as it is showing new and old
kernels to choose from (i used the 64bit disk to go through the re installation
process of linux but without the format partition option ticked, it eventually
reinstalled packages and then got to the bootloader part, luckily I didnt have
enough use of 64bit install to make it a complete waste of time in instaling and
configuring it how I want it to be(assuming the reinstall wold remove user
settings)) , I am aware of the file to edit in the boot/grub folder, however, I
wanted to very quickly change things and not have to spend the afternoon reading
a manual on how the file is setup, the fact that not all Linux distros have
simple to use GUI interfaces for some of the most important yet simple features
is what is keeping windows users out and somehow suggests to me linux developers
dont want more people using linux, just how many thousands of posts of requests
for grub GUI interface must there be? I saw these ten years ago... I made some!
I have spent many hours this week using and learning new things about ubuntu, I
followed the instructions on how to reinstall the grub exactly, and it didnt
work.