New menu.lst on Grub version 2

[Tom H]

On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Leonard Chatagnier
<lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 10/4/09, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
>> menuentry "Microsoft Windows XP Professional (on
>> /dev/sda1)" {
>>     insmod ntfs
>>     set root=(hd0,1)
>>     search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set
>> 7428ef7928ef392e
>>     drivemap -s (hd0) ${root}
>>     chainloader +1
>> }
>> Notice the ### instead of #, and the {
>> and } which set off the actual chore grub
>> does from the words that tell us what it
>> is doing.
>> This makes writing by hand an entry a chore.

> Is there a question in here that I missed or is this
> just another of your list blogs?

It is a blog-type email, of course. However, it does raise two issues.

1) /boot/grub/grub.cfg is not supposed to be edited - unless you feel
like making the same edits after update-grub runs (for example, when
grub2 is upgraded; regularly, I assume, until Karmic is out of beta).
You can add entries in /etc/grub.d/40_custom; or you can remove the x
bit from 10..., 20... 30... and put "all" your entries into 40... and
end up with a fully-customized menu (and fewer ###s in grub.cfg).

2) If you do not like the ###, you can edit the script that is called
by update-grub - and re-edit it after a grub2 upgrade.