Grub 2 and moved sytem (rant and question)

[Mark]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Thierry de Coulon <tcoulon at decoulon.ch> wrote:
>
> Possible, but what "something"? The new system is an exact copy of the
> original, just on another partition. On a grub-legacy system, there are
> two "something": fstab and menu.lst. If you correct them, the system boots.
> If you use grub 2, you can't correct menu.lst, and the system hangs. So
> whatever "something" is, it's grub 2 related, as far as I can say.
>
I may have left out a step - IIRC I went in and did the verboten - I
edited the grub.cnf file that is now what menu.lst/grub.conf used to
be, then booted without mucking around with the grub commands.  (Don't
recall off-hand what the fqpn for that file is, but it's not hard to
find....)

This does work, it's just not permanent because the next time you run
grub, the changes edited in vanish.

I'm almost tempted to go back to grub-legacy....