Grub 2 information

[Glenn Holmer]

On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 05:09 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote: 
> To do this on Grub2 it was simple and it is not changed by normal 
> events. What you do is edit menu.lst and put the item you to boot 
> automatic in position 1, oh, excuse me it is position 0 now.

You seem to be confusing GRUB and GRUB2 here, but if it's the "default"
parameter you are describing, the entry counts from zero in both.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Grub2#grub%20%28/etc/default/grub%29

"As with Grub Legacy, the first "menuentry" in grub.cfg is 0, the second
is 1, etc."

The numbering that changed was for disk partitions (see text starting
with "NOTE"):

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Grub2#User-defined%20Entries

> I went to the Grub web page and I entered a 
> bug on grub2 which is that is almost impossible to manually change any 
> thing and the Grub2 manual has zero examples of what to do.

Not seeing it, what's the ID?

http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=grub

Apart from the above WIKI page (which does contain examples, and has
been pointed out quite a few times on this list), have you seen this
tutorial?

http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/grub-2.html

Agreed that GRUB2 is not as easy to work with, but saying that it's
impossible rather than learning how to use it is not the answer.

> I have been using grub1 since 1995

Unlikely; in '95, distros were still using LILO.

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