New menu.lst on Grub version 2

[Karl F. Larsen]

Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> --- On Mon, 10/5/09, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> From: Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: New menu.lst on Grub version 2
>> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>> Date: Monday, October 5, 2009, 4:43 PM
>> Tom H wrote:
>>> 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.
>>     I read the README in /etc/grub.d/ and I
>> want nothing of this 
>> thank you.
>>
> Ahhh.  You just want to use it not geek it, right.
> Also my feelings.  For the new, latest and greatest, Ubunto OS, it does seem like one needs to do a lot of geeking to get it right.  But, that will all come out in the wash when the final release comes out.  At least, I hope it will.
> Leonard Chatagnier
> lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
> 
> 
	I doubt there will be any change in grub 2 between the Beta 
version I am now using, and the final thing near November 
2009. I think the way grub 2 is made, it is made to be 
operated on by a machine, not a human. This may be good. but 
read the man page for grub 2. It is complex.

73 Karl


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