Re: grub gets confused when I upgrade the kernel

[Marc Auslander <marcausl@gmail.com>]

Hendrik Boom <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com> writes:
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>
> (b) If I were to progress to grub2, where I gather I can't take control 
> of the boot process by editing menu.lst, is there some other way of 
> making sure things go right?  I fear that one of these years, upgrading 
> to grub2 will become inevitable.
>

With grub2 you put custom stanzas into /etc/grub.d and they are
included in grub.cfg (the new menu.lst) whenever it is rebuilt.  I use
this to make absolutely sure my default kernel stays the default
kernel, for example.