Manual fix of Grub2 impossible

[Liam Proven]

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I don't see why any new user (or even any user) who is single- or
> dual-booting (and not quadruple/quintuple booting like Karl) would
> want to change anything in /etc/default/grub or /etc/grub.d).

Well, I wanted to on a machine I was setting up for someone just
yesterday. Grub2 autodetected the system restore partition, labelled
it as Windows Vista and put it in the Grub boot menu. I wanted to
amend the label to say something like "System Restore - DO NOT USE"
but AFAICS in Grub2 there is no way to do this. I can edit grub.cfg,
sure, but the next automatic update cancels and replaces my changes.

I don't want to add extra entries. I can see how to do that. I want to
amend the ones it finds.

Last Monday I was trying to set up a Grub1 PC to dual-boot with 10.04
beta, which defaults to ext4 and grub2. I could find no way to do it;
I was forced to use Grub2. (Sure, there's startup-manager, which lets
you fiddle with cosmetics such as screen modes - so long as you don't
have a widescreen or a netbook, in which case, tough, you can't boot
in your native mode - but it doesn't make any actual functional
changes such as editing or reordering boot entries.)

This is a major PITA and combined with the absence of any friendly
graphical Grub2 editors I could find makes Grub2 a real nuisance to
me, at least.

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