Re: [help-a-newb] setting grub
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 4:03 AM, Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Vi, 08 apr 11, 09:56:43, Joel Rees wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 3:47 AM, Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > You can set GRUB_DEFAULT to the complete name of an entry, then you
>> > won't have to worry about reordering.
>>
>> Well, I was thinking about that, but the names of the kernels change
>> whenever the kernel is upgraded. This is actually the biggest problem
>> with trying to have one boot manager to rule them all.
>
> This has not been my experience with Debian, can you give an example?
In Fedora, the menu entry corresponding to a kernel includes the full
name of that kernel, for example in the latest F14 PAE kernel,
"2.6.35.11-83-fc14.i686.PAE" even though the kernel package's name is
kernel-PAE.
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