Re: How do I prevent Grub from getting automagically updated?

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 10/08/08 00:28, Aniruddha wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 17:15 -0400, David Sanders wrote:
> > On Tuesday 07 October 2008 05:09:28 pm Aniruddha wrote:
> > > Every time a new kernel gets installed, my menu.lst gets updated.
> > > Problem is, that it always points to the wrong hard drive. Therefor I
> > > would like to stop Grub from updating automagically. How can I achieve
> > > this?
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Aniruddha
> > Better to edit menu.lst and put the correct hard drive in the # groot= line.
>
> I tried that once, it didn't seem to work. Anyhow I prefer to be in
> control of my grub.conf. Manually adding boot entries works best for me.
> Is it all possible to turn this feature off?

Do you use raw device names or labels/UUIDs?

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