After my earlier message pasted below I created a grub file under /usr/local/etc/default/grub with only this in it
GRUB_TIMEOUT="-1" GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID="true" I presume perhaps erroneously that the above statement is the way to get kernel arguments in the form of root=/dev/sdx The timout had effect in the grub.cfg file next made by grub-mkconfig and I changed it several times to be sure. The second line however seems to have no effect, the kernel arguments are still root=UUID... device.map shows (hd0) /dev/sda fstab also deals in terms of /dev/sdx Come to think of it, maybe a peek at the fstab files would be one way for grub to sort out which partitions are to be booted with /dev/sdx arguments leaving UUID for others. And unless the above defaults file is missing as a result of some mishap on my installation then the fact that it needs to be created should be documented together with syntax rules etc. ============================ I installed grub-1.98 from tarball and I can at least do a commanded boot or point to a usable 'configfile'. This is enough for me so I'm committing to grub2. While trying to set some defaults for exercises with the automated menu writing via grub-mkconfig I find no trace on my system of any /etc/default/grub file where such defaults would be set (1.98 installed everything under /usr/local). One thing I'd want to set in that default file or in /boot/grub/grub.cfg is GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true. I edited grub-mkconfig like so GRUB_SERIAL_COMMAND \ GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true \ GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_RECOVERY \ but the file produced is still uuID based (which I can't use due to frequent dd mirroring). Do I have to 'create' this default file, where can I find an example for syntax, and what would th e syntax be for a direct menu file edit? ============================== _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
