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Re: reasons to ditch LILO before upgrading to jessie?

On 07/07/16 05:12 PM, Brian wrote:

On Thu 07 Jul 2016 at 15:18:05 -0400, Gary Dale wrote:


On 07/07/16 02:55 PM, David Wright wrote:

On Thu 07 Jul 2016 at 14:39:51 (-0400), Gary Dale wrote:

The big selling feature of Grub over Lilo was that it didn't need to
updated each time you changed something. That fell by the wayside
with Grub 2. Now the big selling feature is that it works with more
than just Linux.

I guess I don't know what you mean by "update".
If I change the contents of grub.cfg, the effect is immediate:
the changes will be seen at the next boot. I don't do anything more.

However the second line of grub.cfg says "DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE". If you do
edit it, the changes will be overwritten the next time a debian upgrade
automatically regenerates it. The only method for preserving your changes is
to update the grub templates then run update-grub.

No it's not. dpkg-divert. That's sufficient to search the list archives
for something which has been mentioned a few times but has passed you by.
A lot of trouble for something that can be avoided if you just edit the correct files in the first place.
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