Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 01:18:30PM +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote:
The memtest86+ package installs as a grub option, so one doesn't need a
separate boot image on CD to run it.
True, but from a user-friendliness stand point, it is much simpler. I
know that grub always destroys my menu.lst whenever it touches it, so I
do not trust the authomated tools to update it or change it.
Regards,
-Roberto
I've wanted to have the automated tools to work for me, so I backed up
/boot/grub/menu.lst, then read the manual page for update-grub before
running it, observing the differences between the backed-up copy and the
automatically updated copy and seeing what needed to be tweaked.
For instance in my
### BEGIN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
## ## Start Default Options ##
section I have (amongst other things)
# kopt=root=/dev/hda5 ro
# kopt_2_6_17_1_686=root=/dev/hda5 ro noisapnp
# kopt_2_6_17=root=/dev/hda5 ro noisapnp
# memtest86=true
which are read by update-grub (even though the line starts with #) to
rewrite menu.lst to boot the kernel with "noisapnp" in effect, and to
create the memtest grub option:
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel memtest86+
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
boot
Arthur.
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