Grub 2 and moved sytem (rant and question)

[Mark]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 9:41 PM, Thierry de Coulon <tcoulon at decoulon.ch> wrote:
>
> Mark pointed me to the idea of doing what's supposed _not_ to be done, editing
> the grub.conf file, which probably would let me boot the new system. But it's
> not clear to me how to make the change permanent, would update-grub from new
> system automatically correct the grub settings or would I have to manually add
> the new UUIDs to the manual config?
>
Yes and no, in that order.  If you read the online doc for grub 2
(https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2), it's a little clearer on
how to do things like this.  I suppose with this being the wave of the
future one might as well learn it now....



(Actually, it's /boot/grub/grub.cfg....)