Re: Help with Grub2

[BandiPat <magicpage91@earthlink.net>]

Felix Zielcke wrote:
> Am Sonntag, den 01.02.2009, 13:00 -0500 schrieb BandiPat:
> 
>> Felix,
>> You are my new hero!  That was the problem, the XFS I was using.  Once I 
>> got the newest release built and installed, everything worked as it 
>> should.  Yaaay!  I can't thank you enough for your help.  It's really a 
>> very simple and painless process, if all things are correct.
> 
> Nice.
> 
>> Now I just need to add some other entries to use, plus I would like to 
>> make the loader screen a bit prettier.  If I just want to boot to 
>> runlevel 3, can I use the standard boot entry that takes me to the gui 
>> and just add "append=3" as the last entry?
> 
> No append=3 is LILO syntax not GRUB.
> You do it like this:
> linux   /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-amd64 root=/dev/sda1 3
> By the way you can use grub-mkconfig to generate a grub.cfg for you.
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Yes, I saw that grub-mkconfig replaced update-grub for that.  A question 
about that though.  When I ran grub-mkconfig /dev/sda, I looked for the 
file in /boot/grub directory, but none was there.  What I did get was 
the complete file shown in the shell I was using.  I just copied that 
into a new grub.cfg then copied it over to /boot/grub.  Is that normal 
behavior or did I do something wrong or did it put the file somewhere else?

I knew that Suse uses an image for their grub loader screen, but never 
investigated that aspect when i was using it.  I'll play with that a bit 
as I would like to do something prettier.  Right now, I'm very pleased 
to have gotten it working on the computer!

Pat