Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 01:18:30PM +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote:The memtest86+ package installs as a grub option, so one doesn't need a separate boot image on CD to run it.True, but from a user-friendliness stand point, it is much simpler. I know that grub always destroys my menu.lst whenever it touches it, so I do not trust the authomated tools to update it or change it. Regards, -Roberto
I've wanted to have the automated tools to work for me, so I backed up /boot/grub/menu.lst, then read the manual page for update-grub before running it, observing the differences between the backed-up copy and the automatically updated copy and seeing what needed to be tweaked.
For instance in my ### BEGIN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST ## ## Start Default Options ## section I have (amongst other things) # kopt=root=/dev/hda5 ro # kopt_2_6_17_1_686=root=/dev/hda5 ro noisapnp # kopt_2_6_17=root=/dev/hda5 ro noisapnp # memtest86=truewhich are read by update-grub (even though the line starts with #) to rewrite menu.lst to boot the kernel with "noisapnp" in effect, and to create the memtest grub option:
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel memtest86+ root (hd0,4) kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin boot Arthur.