Manual fix of Grub2 impossible

[Karl Larsen]

On 04/01/2010 09:33 AM, Luis Paulo wrote:
> Liam
>
> If you copy entries on boot.cfg to 40_custom and disable 10,20 and 30 
> entries with chmod -x, you'll be able to configure every entry as you 
> please. I think, didn't try it, just looking for solutions.
>
> Understand your questions, hope some GUI will come along, and I don't 
> have shares on grub2.
>
> Regards
> Luis
>
> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com 
> <mailto:lproven at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com
>     <mailto: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.
>

         More than a nuisance, it makes Grub2 impossible to edit period! 
There are those who say if your smart you can edit other files that then 
change the /boot/grub/grub.cfg file. I do need to try those but the guys 
working on Grub2 fixes are working real hard. I have two of them on 
their cd-rom but they just let you fix a Grub2 with problems. Nothing 
lets you do what Grub1 lets you do with /boot/grub/menu.lst. Period.

73 Karl



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