Manual fix of Grub2 impossible

[Karl Larsen]

On 04/01/2010 09:11 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Tom H<tomh0665 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> I don't see why any new user (or even any user) who is single- or
>> dual-booting (and not quadruple/quintuple booting like Karl) would
>> want to change anything in /etc/default/grub or /etc/grub.d).
>>      
> Well, I wanted to on a machine I was setting up for someone just
> yesterday. Grub2 autodetected the system restore partition, labelled
> it as Windows Vista and put it in the Grub boot menu. I wanted to
> amend the label to say something like "System Restore - DO NOT USE"
> but AFAICS in Grub2 there is no way to do this. I can edit grub.cfg,
> sure, but the next automatic update cancels and replaces my changes.
>
> I don't want to add extra entries. I can see how to do that. I want to
> amend the ones it finds.
>
> Last Monday I was trying to set up a Grub1 PC to dual-boot with 10.04
> beta, which defaults to ext4 and grub2. I could find no way to do it;
> I was forced to use Grub2. (Sure, there's startup-manager, which lets
> you fiddle with cosmetics such as screen modes - so long as you don't
> have a widescreen or a netbook, in which case, tough, you can't boot
> in your native mode - but it doesn't make any actual functional
> changes such as editing or reordering boot entries.)
>
> This is a major PITA and combined with the absence of any friendly
> graphical Grub2 editors I could find makes Grub2 a real nuisance to
> me, at least.
>
>    
         Welcome to the Grub2 haters Club. It has no dues and all you 
need is to try and change Grub2.