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Re: [LUG] Debian Squeeze with grub2. Problem upgrading linux-kernel

 

On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 07:49:15PM +0000, kevin wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 18:56 +0000, Brad Rogers wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:24:55 +0000
> > Henry Bremridge <henry.bremridge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > Hello Henry,
> > 
> > > No error messages and 
> > > 
> > > $ ls /boot 
> > > 
> > > config-2.6.30-2-486
> > > config-2.6.32-3-486
> > > config-2.6.32-trunk-486
> > > grub
> > > initrd.img-2.6.30-2-486
> > > initrd.img-2.6.30-2-486.bak
> > > initrd.img-2.6.32-3-486
> > > initrd.img-2.6.32-trunk-486
> > > initrd.img-2.6.32-trunk-486.bak
> > > lost+found
> > > System.map-2.6.30-2-486
> > > System.map-2.6.32-3-486
> > > System.map-2.6.32-trunk-486
> > > vmlinuz-2.6.30-2-486
> > > vmlinuz-2.6.32-3-486
> > > vmlinuz-2.6.32-trunk-486
> > 
> > lost+found?!  What's in there?  Hopefully, nothing.  Also, do you really
> > need three kernels?  Especially as one is "trunk".
> 
> 
> Have you looked in to http://www.supergrubdisk.org/ this may be a tool
> that helps?
> 
> I was just installing Linux Mint 8 on a Dual core PC with a sata disk
> and looked in the grub.cfg and noticed that there is a "customization
> section at the end of the file although at the start it says "Don't Edit
> this file"?
> 

Will have a look this weekend. From what I have read on grub2

- All the basic configuration settings are in /etc/grub.d/
- The main configuration is in /etc/default/grub
- Once you finished amending then you run update-grub which in turn
  amends grub.cfg


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