Editing grub boot menu, how to save?

Liam Proven lproven at gmail.com
Fri Oct 29 21:11:22 UTC 2021


On Fri, 29 Oct 2021 at 18:02, Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> What happens is this:
> - On the boot menu I select a line I want to edit.
> - Then I hit the letter e on the keyboard and the edit starts
> - I move the cursor to where I will add text and type away
> - Now I want to save the edit but *there is no save cmd*!!!

No there is not.

You cannot save these changes.

The GRUB menu is generated by a program every time you run
`update-grub`. You can't change it because [1] it would make it too
easy for people to break their bootloader and [2] it would be
over-written next time anyway.

You can't edit these entries.

You can add your own manual entries on the end of the list if you
wish. I don't advise it because they won't get updated.

I don't know of a permanent way to change the descriptions that GRUB generates.


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