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Re: Grub dilemma



On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 03:15:49AM +0200, Michael Wagner wrote:
> * Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org> 18.10.2008
>  
> > This is for grub package /boot/grub/menu.lst.  If you are installing
> > grub-pc, you have /boot/grub/grub.cfg
> > 
> > menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux" {
> >         set root=(hd0,1)
> >         linux /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 ro
> >         initrd /initrd.img
> > }
> 
> Hello Osamu,
> 
> these are the first lines in my /boot/grub/grub.cfg on Debian
> 
> # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
> #
> # It is automatically generated by /usr/sbin/update-grub using templates
> # from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
> 
> So I think it's not the right way to edit /boot/grub/grub.cfg. Better
> edit the templates in /etc/grub.d and then run "update-grub".

Yes I know that too.

"*edit*    /boot/grub/grub.cfg" is not the right thing.
"*inspect* /boot/grub/grub.cfg" is good  thing.

If other partition has an old broken grub configuration due to broken grub
installation caused by rc2 d-i, update-grub does not work as expected.
So as a last resort measure, we can edit it (but do not blame others if
your modificatio is overwritten by runing "update-grub".)

Osamu


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