Although they recommend against it, you can actually edit the grub.cfg file just as you previously edited the menu.lst file. If you subsequently do update-grub, your changes will be overwritten.
Neil On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 10:43 PM, Erik Christiansen <dva...@internode.on.net > wrote: > On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 04:49:35PM -0500, Dave Christman wrote: > > On 12/18/2010 4:05 PM, andy pugh wrote: > > > On 18 December 2010 20:55, Kirk Wallace<kwall...@wallacecompany.com> > wrote: > > > > > >> A common problem with the install script is that the original Linux > will > > >> boot instead of real time Linux. > > > It should be possible to see which kernel has booted with > > > > > > uname -r > > > > > > If you don't see -rtai at the end of the kernel version then you > > > probably need to beat grub up a bit. > > > > > The response to uname -r from the terminal window is 2.6.32-26 generic. > > What is a grub, and how do I beat it up? > > To make it more interesting, recent ubuntu versions have switched from > grub to grub2. Editing the config to change the default kernel image has > changed, as has the name and location of the input file. > > If you're on lucid, then you should have grub2. Try 'man grub2', as a > quick test. Also 'ls /etc/default/grub'. With grub2 confirmed, the > method is to edit /etc/default/grub , then run update-grub, which > updates /boot/grub/grub.cfg > > There are more details here than you'd perhaps like: > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2 > > Cutting to the chase, there's HOWTO guff here: > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#/etc/default/grub > > under the heading "Configuring GRUB 2", and there's even mention of a > GUI way to do it, if you're into that sort of thing. > > OR: > > If you have the older grub, then there's 98 pages of manual here: > > www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.pdf > > (ISTR that the config file had another name (menu.lst?), and could be > edited directly. It's a while since I've used it, so details are fading > from DRAM.) > > Hopefully that get's you well under way. (It's a lot easier than it > looks.) > > Erik > > -- > "Those who live by the GUI, die by the GUI" > - Duncan Roe, on luv-main ML. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Lotusphere 2011 > Register now for Lotusphere 2011 and learn how > to connect the dots, take your collaborative environment > to the next level, and enter the era of Social Business. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/lotusphere-d2d > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > -- http://www.pixpopuli.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lotusphere 2011 Register now for Lotusphere 2011 and learn how to connect the dots, take your collaborative environment to the next level, and enter the era of Social Business. http://p.sf.net/sfu/lotusphere-d2d _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
