grub menu.lst kernel option preservation

[Steve Kratz]

> > Is there a "proper" way for specifying boot options that will live 
> > through a kernel update?
> 
> Find the commented-out # kopt line in /boot/grub/menu.lst and 
> modify it.
> Do not uncomment it.
> 
> The update-grub script will parse that comment and propagate 
> your options to each kernel command line.


Ahh, thanks!  I've been in that file 100 times, and always just jumped
to the end of the file to edit the kernel opts there... Read the
comments, quaint idea :)