[Feisty] acpi=force

[Tommy Trussell]

On 3/29/07, Andrew Zajac <arzajac at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/29/07, Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Is it ever necessary to run update-grub manually in Ubuntu? If it does
> > what the man page says, I can't see why it's necessary.
> > >
>
> Well, if you want to add a parameter to your menu.list, you can add it
> to just the one line and then run update-grub to make all the grub
> entries get the change.  If you don't run update-grub by hand, the
> changes aren't made to each grub kernel entry.

I understand now -- I was still thinking in "update the parameter
manually" mode. Once I make the change as discussed, I could then open
menu.list to verify whether the automated addition to the kernel
parameters occurred as I expected.

Thank you for the explanation!