On 07/07/16 02:55 PM, David Wright wrote:
However the second line of grub.cfg says "DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE". If you do edit it, the changes will be overwritten the next time a debian upgrade automatically regenerates it. The only method for preserving your changes is to update the grub templates then run update-grub.On Thu 07 Jul 2016 at 14:39:51 (-0400), Gary Dale wrote:The big selling feature of Grub over Lilo was that it didn't need to updated each time you changed something. That fell by the wayside with Grub 2. Now the big selling feature is that it works with more than just Linux.I guess I don't know what you mean by "update". If I change the contents of grub.cfg, the effect is immediate: the changes will be seen at the next boot. I don't do anything more.
Glad you find the grub shell useful. I've yet to encounter a boot error that it could fix.It also has a "rescue shell" that I've never been able to do anything useful with. When grub fails, I boot from a rescue cd instead. That way I get a real working environment.Horses for courses. Cheers, David.