Manual fix of Grub2 impossible

[Luis Paulo]

Ok, Karl, I see.
I look at grub2 this way. A very low knowledge of bash/shell (setting vars),
will allow you to configure grub2 "operational" parameters at
/etc/default/grub

You can add your custom grub entries at /etc/grub.d/40_custom.
Just type your own menu entries, pretty much as you would with previous grub
menu.lst. Correct me if I'm wrong.

run update-grub and check result at /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Done. Everything else you leave as automatic. It works fine on ubuntu 9.10.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2

That's why I say manual configuration is possible. And as you said, you can
edit directly /boot/grub/grub.cfg, but as last resource.

What do you think?

PS: And I do think bash is the very fundamental tool for linux users, for
the prompt and to do batch scripts, minimum.
New users should know that, in my opinion.

"bottom comments"? Don't know what you mean, sorry. I use gmail.

Regards
Luis

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Karl Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:

>  On 04/01/2010 06:44 AM, Luis Paulo wrote:
>
> I have to agree. Being new its not all good things. :)
>
> But if you are trying to configure something like bootloader, you should
> already know a bit more than click buttons. No offense.
>
>
>     No offense taken. In fact many new users of Ubuntu do have grub
> problems however. So in the old Grub1 days you could tell them to bring up
> menu.lst in gedit and find the problem and change it.
>
>     Also please change your email system so it bottom comments. It is a lot
> better for this list.
>
>
>
>
> Bash is a good thing.
> Maybe this site can give you a push, when you have the time
> http://lowfatlinux.com/linux-shell-script.html
>
>      Thanks but I am 75 years old and know C and C++ so I use them when I
> want to do coding.
>
>
>
> Luis
>
> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Karl Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 04/01/2010 04:54 AM, Glenn Holmer wrote:
>> > On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 07:15 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>> >
>> >> Looking at the files in /etc/grub.d makes it
>> >> impossible to be changed by hand. These are files written in bash
>> binary
>> >> code
>> >>
>> > Impossible? Binary code?
>> >
>> >
>> >> which most of us are stupid about.
>> >>
>> > Speak for yourself.
>> >
>> >
>>          I speak for myself and almost EVERY new user of Ubuntu.
>>
>> 73 Karl
>>
>>
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