Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 26.01.2013 18:26, schrieb Bill Davidsen:
I avoid editing the grub.cfg file for three reasons:
1 - I don't know what I'm doing, if magic is needed the install/upgrade
should be the magician. The average users knows way less than I do
about system setup
2 - The last time I did the system wound up being a totally unbootable
recovery adventure. See #1
3 - every kernel upgrade seems to rebuild the config file, making
change a brief success.
3 is completly untrue
The modification date on the file and it's contents change. Since I have never
been able to get it to add either fc17 (separate boot and root) or XP in a
partition, I couldn't investigate what it was changing, but it does get rebuilt,
which is what I based my statement on, I actually looked. If having it change
doesn't meet you criteria from being rebuilt I think that's splitting hairs.
If someone could tell me how to get it to boot any of the preinstalled OS on the
drive, I could do better testing. Better yet I could upgrade and move on.
until now after kernel updates grubby is adding the new one to grub config
and taking any chnage you made in the previous one to the new entry
only "grub2-mkconfig" is creating a complete new config
with all this submenu crap and so on
for kernel params "/etc/default/grub" is your friend here
I am not a guru on grub2, when I did this with fc16 along with fc14, both
appeared, I was asked (my notes don't say if it was a question or menu) if I
wanted to boot fc14. That was good, the current "ignore the other stuff" doesn't
seem like an optimal install interface, Fedora users tend to be technical, but
having to hack grub2 is a hard learning curve. BTW: copying stanzas from the old
grub2 didn't seem to work, system just didn't boot.
Thanks for the input.
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Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
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