Ed Nisley wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-04-02 at 15:33 +0100, Steve Blackmore wrote:
>    
>> The custom kernel says edit menu.lst - doesn't exist any more
>>      
> The Grub2 file is /boot/grub/grub.cfg. It looks different, but gets
> basically the same treatment as Grub1's menu.lst.
>
> But it's actually worse than that. The grub.cfg file gets rewritten
> every time there's a kernel update; there's a warning at the top of the
> file to *not* hand-edit it. You're supposed to futz with the
> configuration files in (IIRC) /etc/grub that tell Grub2 how to
> automagically create grub.cfg as part of the kernel update.
>
> HOWEVER, I've been unable to figure out how to do something special with
> the RTAI-modified kernel: there's no way (that I can find) to *not*
> regenerate a standard kernel boot line for the RTAI kernel.
>
> So whenever I hand-edit grub.cfg, I add a note to the RTAI menu entry
> showing that it's decorated with isolcpus=1. After every kernel update,
> that note vanishes: it's time to edit grub.cfg again.
>
> Maybe there's a way to do that automagically, but ...
>    
A relatively quick google search turns up this page 
<http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1195275>, which tells all 
about configuring grub2.

The EMC wiki could have something added that either points to this page 
or excerpts specifics for the simple case.

- Steve

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