On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 15:10 +0200, [email protected] wrote: > >> You may want to look here: > >> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2 > >> > >> and probably here as well: > >> http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html > >> <snip> > >> > grub.cfg is the replacement for menu.lst > >> > >> Not exactly. The true replacement is /etc/default/grub > > > > I only have got one life and no time to read this. What are the reasons > > not to edit grub.cfg? > > You gave the reason yourself. grub.cfg is generated by a script, and > therefore overwritten with updates. I also didn't like the Grub2 way of > configuration first but that was because I was used to the Grub way > already. Grub2 is much easier to automate updates, and it's more flexible. > Still it's a bit unlogic (what have the boot loader scripts and config > files to do in the main OS config directory, and why change partition > numbering to start from 1 now but leave drive numbering starting from 0?) > You can make static (not auto-updated) menu entries with the files in > /etc/grub.d/ and set various menu behavior with /etc/default/grub, after > that you call update-grub to write a new grub.cfg (misleading naming, > should be "update-grubmenu" or similar) > > > > I can post you my grub.cfg and you may tell me what files I have to > > edit, in what way, to get exactly the grub.cfg I wish to have ;)? > > No way to RTM for you, sorry :-) But here is a pointer to what you > probably need: > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#Custom%20Menu%20Entries > > > > My grub.cfg does what I want > > So you want it to disappear on every update of kernel or Grub2?
No, but it don't take much time to run # cp -p grub.cfg.BACKUP /boot/grub/grub.cfg and then to add the new kernel by using gedit (or emacs if somebody likes to remember tons of shortcuts). But it takes much time to read a book about GRUB2, just to get a menu that anyway isn't exactly as it should be, while editing grub.cfg will give you the menu you wish to have, assumed your distro provides GRUB2 with all features, very often they don't, e.g. many GRUB2 from repos ignore the submenu command. > > I only can help editing grub.cfg! I don't know any argument not to edit > > this file. > > Convenience is the argument for doing it like it's meant to be done by the > makers. It's more complicated than it was with Grub but hey, once we were > also unfamiliar with that one (and it was messy as it was). menu.lst wasn't messy. > > A lot of people run echo by a script or use an editor, e.g. > > echo "CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED=n" >> .config > > Do you always run an application and edit things with an app? > > Yes. Everything but copying keystrokes directly to a file at kernel level > is running an application. echo, editors, command shells are all > applications to the OS. The Grub2 config files, grub.cfg included, are > still standard text files. > Nothing will stop you from editing grub.cfg. It might even be necessary > for example in a rescue situation. It's just not the most convenient way, > because you will have to update it manually all the time (or perhaps make > the scripts which overwrite it non-executable). I did edit the script to generate a file named 'grub.cfg.date_and_time' but this script will be overwritten by packages over and over again. VERY OFTEN grub.cfg is updated by three or four packages one after the other, this takes minutes, even if nothing changed for grub.cfg. This is idiocy. > > the DEs and basic stuff becomes more worse > > than Windows. > > Don't worry. Where in Win have I ever been able to choose from several > viable DEs and configure them to my liking. Now, I can make it more basic > or more consumer-friendly as I like (or have no DE at all!). Have I ever > met a Win bootloader which is automatically configured to let me choose > which OS on the machine to load, regardless of manufacurer? But I'm not > up-to-date, as I'm out of the scene since WinXP. I'm not using Windows, but current Linux installs forced me to replace my old faithful PS/2 mouse with a USB mouse. I can't unsolder the fucking mouse wheel LED of this USB mouse, because I don't have a screwdriver that fit, so it's not only bad un-ergonomically, but also the light of the mouse wheel LED cause reflections on the screen. All modern mouse seems to come with folderol and a guaranty to get typist's cramps. I prefer monitors and setting up X became a PITA. E.g. nouveau driver won't work with a kernel-rt and the nv driver is dropped, e.g. done by Debian testing. The chances that a Windows will work with averaged hardware OOTB is much better than that a Linux does work. A while ago I worked for child care. Everybody was impressed when I showed Edubuntu, but everybody has given up to use Linux, because Windows on those pedagogues computers works OOTB and Linux doesn't. Averaged people don't like to read tons of books to be able to get a OS working. Linux tries to automate similar to Windows, but it fails. Tehy aren't able to reach what's possible for Windows (perhaps regarding to proprietary issues) and by doing this, they drop all advantages of a simple editable Linux. All capable DEs (KDE and GNOME) switch to an 'iMicrosoft' style, even defaults for current smaller DEs come with that 'iMicrosft' taste. *double-click on a dark theme where even scroll bars became invisible, but everything is animated and transparent, to open audio preferences that provide nice values for real-time audio* 2 Cents ;) Ralf _______________________________________________ 64studio-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-users
