Thomas wrote: > You don't *need* to run it, but it *will* be run the next time a > kernel-image Debian package is installed and if you don't take > that into account when editing the menu.lst then your changes may > be wiped out. Okay, well back to original question, of simply how to add a new kernel parm ... editing menu.lst ... that does it! This debian thing about wiping out changes sounds like more trouble than "help" Sorry, I don't want to start a flame war LOL. I built my grub from source and have never run update-grub, probably never will. -- Doug