Oh yeah, there they are! Thank you. I'll see if my changes work next
time it updates.
Leo
Keith Edmunds wrote:
> On Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:04:51 +0000, linux@??? said:
>
>> Does anyone know how Ubuntu decides to create grub's menu.lst when
>> updates force it to, as it gets mine wrong every time.
>
> On Debian - so possibly the same on Ubuntu - the defaults are set in the
> menu.lst file itself AS COMMENTED LINES. I have something like (in part):
>
> ### BEGIN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
> ## lines between the AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST markers will be modified
> ## by the debian update-grub script except for the default options below
>
> ## DO NOT UNCOMMENT THEM, Just edit them to your needs
>
> ## ## Start Default Options ##
> ## default kernel options
> ## default kernel options for automagic boot options
> ## If you want special options for specific kernels use kopt_x_y_z
> ## where x.y.z is kernel version. Minor versions can be omitted.
> ## e.g. kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro
> ## kopt_2_6_8=root=/dev/hdc1 ro
> ## kopt_2_6_8_2_686=root=/dev/hdc2 ro
> # kopt=root=/dev/md0 ro
>
> ## default grub root device
> ## e.g. groot=(hd0,0)
> # groot=(hd0,0)
>
> The lines with a single hash are, in fact, the defaults used, so you edit
> those lines and retain the single hash, then run update-grub.
>
> Does that help?
>
