[nylug-talk] Benefits/drawbacks of building Linux as a package [was: Looking for recommendations on Linux Distro]

[Ruben Safir]

On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 09:49:38PM -0400, Chris Knadle wrote:
> On Saturday 15 March 2008, Ruben Safir wrote:
> > Reinstalling the kernal from a packagemanager doesn't allow for both
> > kernels to be exected through grub incase something goes wrong.
> 
>    I'm assuming you're talking about the 'savedefault' option.  
> The 'update-grub' program uses what look like comments as options for itself, 
> which is why the menu.lst file contains lines that are commented and others 
> that are *double* commented.  So if you change:
>     # savedefault=false
> 
>            to:
> 
>     # savedefault=true
> 
> then when a new kernel is added to the list by update-grub, *all* of the 
> kernel entries will have 'savedefault' after them, which is I believe what 
> you're looking for.  

BTW - grub is another issue itself.

There seems to have been a change in grubs syntax at some point because it
tells me my file has bad options in it and defaults to a cursors like interface.

It still boots, but its anoying.

Ruben


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