Re: Grub2 almost does what I want

[Chris Murphy]

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.
> 
> 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, 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.

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

Chris Murphy