| Art Alexion on 9 Sep 2005 18:23:50 -0000 |
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sean finney wrote: >hey, > >On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 11:51:44AM -0400, Art Alexion wrote: > > >>I assume that the location of the boot partition is stored somewhere so >>that dpkg can figure out how to update the menu.lst. Does anyone know >>where so that I can manually change it and avoid having to manually edit >>menu.lst every time I update the kernel? >> >> > >if ubuntu does it the same as debian, if you look further up in menu.lst >you'll see some "commented out" options, which are actually used as >the default settings for when menu.lst is regenerated. for example: > >======================================== >### BEGIN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST >## lines between the AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST markers will be modified >## by the debian update-grub script except for the default options below > >## DO NOT UNCOMMENT THEM, Just edit them to your needs > >## ## Start Default Options ## >## default kernel options >## default kernel options for automagic boot options >## If you want special options for specifiv kernels use kopt_x_y_z >## where x.y.z is kernel version. Minor versions can be omitted. >## e.g. kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro ># kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro >======================================== > >change that, _leaving it commented out_, and then rerun update-grub to >make sure it looks how you want. also notice that you can even specify >different options for kernels based on major/minor versions, which >might be helpful for debian vs homerolled kernels. > > > Thanks, Sean. So easy to do; so tough to find. I had no idea "update-grub" was doing anything with the commented out stuff. I guess the single comments (#) prevent grub from reading the lines and the double comments (##) prevent grub-update from reading. -- _______________________________________ Art Alexion Arthur S. Alexion LLC arthur [at] alexion [dot] com aim: aalexion sms: 2679725536 [at] messaging [dot] sprintpcs [dot] com PGP fingerprint: 52A4 B10C AA73 096F A661 92D2 3B65 8EAC ACC5 BA7A The attachment -- signature.asc -- is my electronic signature; no need for alarm. Info @ http://mysite.verizon.net/art.alexion/encryption/signature.asc.what.html Key for signed PDFs available at http://mysite.verizon.net/art.alexion/encryption/ArthurSAlexion.p7c The validation string is TTJY-ZILJ-BJJG. ________________________________________ Attachment:
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