- To: jam <jam@xxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [SLUG] The Beast
- From: Mike Andy <beatbreaker82@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:04:51 +1100
- Cc: slug@xxxxxxxxxxx
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This is something we're all going to be facing sooner or later. I'm a little
shocked to find that the old menu.lst (grub.cfg) is not to be manually
edited, though i'm also happy to find that the option has been replaced by
adding custom entries (/etc/grub.d/40_custom) if i'm understanding
everything right.
It might be good to have a sluglet or some kinda talk about Grub 2 at an
upcoming SLUG meeting? It's a little dry but none the less very important.
I'm sorry to hijack but this might be something we can all benefit from.
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 12:28 PM, jam <jam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Saturday 14 November 2009 23:05:47 slug-request@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Has anybody tamed the grub2 beast?
>
> I uncovered a link <joy><rapture>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1195275
>
> James
>
> > Whatever the technical merit, the lack of even basic documentation is
> > overwhelming.
> >
> > I'm trying to: (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BootToRAM)
> > title RAM Session
> > kernel /casper/vmlinuz boot=casper toram splash
> > initrd /casper/initrd.gz
> >
> > by editing ...
> > jam@dvr:~$ cat /etc/grub.d/40_custom
> > #!/bin/sh
> > exec tail -n +3 $0
> > # This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type
> > the # menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to
> > change # the 'exec tail' line above.
> > cat << EOF
> > menuentry "Root Ram" {
> > set root=(hd0,1)
> > linux /casper/vmlinuz boot=casper toram splash
> >
> > initrd /casper/initrd.gz
> > }
> > EOF
> >
> > and running grub-mkconfig which yields NO CHANGES to /boot/grub/grub.cfg
> > and the grub entry does not work when added by hand saying
> > error: you need to load the kernel first
> >
> > I agree with him
> > http://aronzak.wordpress.com/2008/09/30/stay-away-from-grub2/
> > so 1 post then back to the sane world for me
>
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