Kernel Package tweaking

[Ben Collins]

On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 10:00 -0200, Glauber de Oliveira Costa wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I usually add some custom boot options to my kernels to tweak it for
> my usage. However, everytime the kernel package is updated, I am
> obbliged to open my menu.lst in order to add those options to the new
> kernel (Obviously, this is not the hard part. The hard part is
> remembering to do so). It is sometimes anoying, as after boot, the new
> kernel not always works as I would expect.
> 
> It would be nice to be able to make these configurations survive
> kernel upgrades  (By inspecting the old entries of menu.lst during
> prerm, from a config file like /etc/kernel-bootup-params, from
> /proc/cmdline, or something alike)

Open up menu.lst and find the commented out line that starts:

# kopt=

Add your options to the end, and grub's menu update will retain them.

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Ben Collins
Kernel Developer - Ubuntu Linux