<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> On 04/01/2010 09:33 AM, Luis Paulo wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:t2v239837ed1004010833u41b9e3d3g8e006298e1e00fb@mail.gmail.com" type="cite">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 <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Liam Proven <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:lproven@gmail.com">lproven@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Tom H <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:tomh0665@gmail.com">tomh0665@gmail.com</a>> 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). </div> 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. </blockquote> </div> </blockquote> 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 <blockquote cite="mid:t2v239837ed1004010833u41b9e3d3g8e006298e1e00fb@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <div class="gmail_quote"> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> -- Liam Proven • Profile: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven" target="_blank">http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven</a> Email: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:lproven@cix.co.uk">lproven@cix.co.uk</a> • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:lproven@gmail.com">lproven@gmail.com</a> Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • LiveJournal/Twitter: lproven MSN: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:lproven@hotmail.com">lproven@hotmail.com</a> • ICQ: 73187508 <div> <div class="h5"> -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </div> </div> </blockquote> </div> </blockquote> </body> </html>