Re: Grub2 almost does what I want

[Richard Owlett]

Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Feb 2, 2013, at 7:47 AM, Richard Owlett <address@hidden> wrote:
> > [Grub menu identifies itself as version 1.98+20100804+squeeze1]
>
> I think you need to use a newer version of GRUB2 first off. This is a 
> prerelease version and is quite old.

Using a newer version would be nice ---- BUT <grin>
I'm installing from the Debian Squeeze 8 DVD set because I 
do not have high speed internet available.
Also it appears that Grub 2 is available only as source. 
I've not attempted compile link load ... for over 30 years.

> > Do I have any options except following full manual edit of grub.cfg?
> > [my reading of http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html suggests I 
> > don't.]
>
> Directly editing the grub.cg isn't advised,

That was apparent from the abundant number of warnings on 
the issue.


 > it's better to make the changes in /etc/default/grub and 
then running grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg which 
reads the
 >  /etc/default/grub configuration, and produces a new 
grub.cfg from scratch.

So no semi-automatic tools to do what I specified :<

Thanks

> Also note that documentation applies to GRUB 2.00. There are many, many changes 
> from 1.98 to 2.00.
>
> Chris Murphy