Re: reasons to ditch LILO before upgrading to jessie?
On Thu 07 Jul 2016 at 23:34:11 -0400, Gary Dale wrote:
> On 07/07/16 05:12 PM, Brian wrote:
> >On Thu 07 Jul 2016 at 15:18:05 -0400, Gary Dale wrote:
> >
> >>On 07/07/16 02:55 PM, David Wright wrote:
> >>>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.
> >>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.
> >No it's not. dpkg-divert. That's sufficient to search the list archives
> >for something which has been mentioned a few times but has passed you by.
>
> A lot of trouble for something that can be avoided if you just edit the
> correct files in the first place.
Let's see. You write your own grub.cfg or edit the existing one. You
want to preserve your file from being changed so you use a *one line
command* to ensure that. But this one line command is a lot of trouble.
A one line command is onerous?
It is much easier to edit the unspecified "correct files" to stop any
changes to grub.cfg at a Debian upgrade which attempts to regenerate
it? One lives and learns.
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