On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 13:21 -0400, Janina Sajka wrote: > Michael Schwendt writes: > > The symlink target is read-only as another reminder that one should > > not edit it with an editor but only via the fragments in /etc/grub.d/ > > > > -- > > Seems clear enough, as is also the unambiguous header in grub.cfg, > until one reads the Grub manual which clearly and unambiguously says: > "In the meantime, those who feel that it would be easier to write > grub.cfg directly are encouraged to do so." There's a difference between 'write directly' and 'modify directly'. You have two choices: use tools to generate/maintain the config file from the fragments, or manually write and update the file directly. You shouldn't really mix and match the two approaches. As Fedora is a distribution that aims to have things work 'automatically', we have to pick one of these approaches, and we choose to generate the config file based on the fragments; hence you probably shouldn't edit it directly as you can't rely on your modifications sticking. If you hand-wrote the config file from scratch, it obviously would not include the commented warning telling you not to edit it directly. ;) You did cut out the rather important bit at the end of the sentence you quoted...it does not end with a full stop, but with this: ", and to disable any system provided by their distribution to automatically run grub-mkconfig." i.e. if you decide to maintain your config by hand then you have to try and stop your distro doing it for you, and that's outside of the distro's scope of support. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
