New menu.lst on Grub version 2

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- On Mon, 10/5/09, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: New menu.lst on Grub version 2
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Monday, October 5, 2009, 4:43 PM
> Tom H wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Leonard Chatagnier
> > <lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net>
> wrote:
> >> On Sun, 10/4/09, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>> ### 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?
> > 
> > It is a blog-type email, of course. However, it does
> raise two issues.
> > 
> > 1) /boot/grub/grub.cfg is not supposed to be edited -
> unless you feel
> > like making the same edits after update-grub runs (for
> example, when
> > grub2 is upgraded; regularly, I assume, until Karmic
> is out of beta).
> > You can add entries in /etc/grub.d/40_custom; or you
> can remove the x
> > bit from 10..., 20... 30... and put "all" your entries
> into 40... and
> > end up with a fully-customized menu (and fewer ###s in
> grub.cfg).
> > 
> > 2) If you do not like the ###, you can edit the script
> that is called
> > by update-grub - and re-edit it after a grub2
> upgrade.
> > 
>     I read the README in /etc/grub.d/ and I
> want nothing of this 
> thank you.
> 
Ahhh.  You just want to use it not geek it, right.
Also my feelings.  For the new, latest and greatest, Ubunto OS, it does seem like one needs to do a lot of geeking to get it right.  But, that will all come out in the wash when the final release comes out.  At least, I hope it will.
Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net