Re: No more GRUB legacy at install time since wheezy?
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 01:19:39PM -0400, Tom H wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Freeman <hewho7@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> > Grub2 didn't like my setup during upgrade.
> >
> > My menu.lst of Grub 0.97 included numerous different rc levels to select
> > from. Just a way of selecting between different interfaces while booting.
> >
> > So the following blocks in the automagic section of menu.lst resulted in a 4
> > item menu for each kernel, one item booting into GDM, the next starting
> > xinit with Openbox--booting from rc5.d, rc4.d rc3.d and rc2.d respectively.
> >
> > ## altoption boot targets option
> > ## multiple altoptions lines are allowed
> > ## e.g. altoptions=(extra menu suffix) extra boot options
> > ## altoptions=(single-user) single
> > # altoptions=(GDM) 5 vga=791 quiet
> > # altoptions=(Openbox) 4 vga=791 quiet
> > # altoptions=(Screen) 3 vga=791
> > # altoptions=(single-user mode) single
> >
> > When grub2 setup hit that, it gave me some garbled menu item that failed,
> > followed by its basic boot items for console and maintenance.
> >
> > So now I have an /etc/grub.d/09_custom that renders a menu above Grub2's
> > default menu. I manually edit it for kernel upgrades with "find and
> > replace" of kernel numbers. I don't like having a fractured, two part menu
> > that doesn't completely upgrade automagically. But it works:
>
> This was a good Debianism that I wish the Debian maintainers had tried
> to have integrated into grub2 upstream. They'd just need to make, for
> example, "GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_ALTx" and "GRUB_TITLE_LINUX_ALTx",
> available in "/etc/default/grub", with the corresponding changes in
> "/usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig" and "/etc/grub.d/10_linux" for them to be
> used.
>
Didn't know it was Debianism. But it does seem good and as if it could be
saved.
>
> >> As an aside: Is having 'DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE' and making the file
> >> read-only really an invitation to do the opposite?
> >
> > Without any other information, I'd have to edit the file to see what
> > happens. =:0
>
> Same here! :)
>
Debian is good for so many things.
--
Regards,
Freeman
"Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is the
answer." --Somebody
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