On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 04:17:39PM -0500, BandiPat wrote:
> /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28.3 and should be booted as default. So after copying 
> a new kernel to but I'll have to update my grub.cfg, too. Or is it 
> posible to specify some "default settings" in that way:
> 
> set root=(hd0,2)
>         linux   (hd0,2)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.*.* root=/dev/sda2 ro 
> splash=silent vga=794
> }
> Which would list all vmlinuz-2.6.*.* kernels as menuentry and 
> automatically set the highest version number as default. This would be 
> cool :-D

The idea about letting grub-mkconfig do such things is that since it has
access to a complete Unixy environment, it can be smarter than what GRUB
would do.  Also, this design allows GRUB to be smaller/faster that it
would be if we had to do everything at every boot.

-- 
Robert Millan

  The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and
  how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we
  still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."


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