New menu.lst on Grub version 2

[Karl F. Larsen]

Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> 
> --- On Sun, 10/4/09, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> From: Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com>
>> Subject: New menu.lst on Grub version 2
>> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>> Date: Sunday, October 4, 2009, 12:05 PM
>>     Here is a snippit
>> of the /boot/grub/grub.cfg file on karmic:
>>
>>   3-35245eb5fb2a ro single
>>     initrd   
>> /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-11-generic
>> }
>> ### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
>>
>> ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###
>> menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+)" {
>>     linux16   
>> /boot/memtest86+.bin
>> }
>> menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+, serial console 115200)"
>> {
>>     linux16   
>> /boot/memtest86+.bin console=ttyS0,115200n8
>> }
>> ### END /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###
>>
>> ### 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?
> Leonard Chatagnier
> lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
> 
> 
	I had hoped it would prove interesting to some one.

73 karl


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