On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 01:19:39PM -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Freeman <hew...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Grub2 didn't like my setup during upgrade. > > > > My menu.lst of Grub 0.97 included numerous different rc levels to select > > from. Just a way of selecting between different interfaces while booting. > > > > So the following blocks in the automagic section of menu.lst resulted in a 4 > > item menu for each kernel, one item booting into GDM, the next starting > > xinit with Openbox--booting from rc5.d, rc4.d rc3.d and rc2.d respectively. > > > > ## altoption boot targets option > > ## multiple altoptions lines are allowed > > ## e.g. altoptions=(extra menu suffix) extra boot options > > ## altoptions=(single-user) single > > # altoptions=(GDM) 5 vga=791 quiet > > # altoptions=(Openbox) 4 vga=791 quiet > > # altoptions=(Screen) 3 vga=791 > > # altoptions=(single-user mode) single > > > > When grub2 setup hit that, it gave me some garbled menu item that failed, > > followed by its basic boot items for console and maintenance. > > > > So now I have an /etc/grub.d/09_custom that renders a menu above Grub2's > > default menu. I manually edit it for kernel upgrades with "find and > > replace" of kernel numbers. I don't like having a fractured, two part menu > > that doesn't completely upgrade automagically. But it works: > > This was a good Debianism that I wish the Debian maintainers had tried > to have integrated into grub2 upstream. They'd just need to make, for > example, "GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_ALTx" and "GRUB_TITLE_LINUX_ALTx", > available in "/etc/default/grub", with the corresponding changes in > "/usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig" and "/etc/grub.d/10_linux" for them to be > used. >
Didn't know it was Debianism. But it does seem good and as if it could be saved. > > >> As an aside: Is having 'DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE' and making the file > >> read-only really an invitation to do the opposite? > > > > Without any other information, I'd have to edit the file to see what > > happens. =:0 > > Same here! :) > Debian is good for so many things. -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is the answer." --Somebody -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110625234426.GA23370@Deneb.office
