From: "Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" <phcoder@gmail.com>
To: grub-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to pick a kernel to boot ?
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 10:14:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <526A2871.1000001@gmail.com> (raw)
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On 24.10.2013 16:46, Lukáš Czerner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a simple question about grub2 which I can not find satisfying
> answer to.
>
> What is a proper way to pick a kernel to boot from in case I have
> multiple kernels installed ? Note that picking the right kernel from
> the menu is not an option I do not always have access to the
> console.
>
> With grub legacy, this was easy. Simply edit
>
> /boot/grub/menu.lst
>
> and pick the right number. All the information I need are in that
> file.
>
> So what is a recommended way to do this with grub2 ?
>
You can use numbers but it's a bad idea since they change on update. Use
ids As you see in menuentry:
menuentry ... $menuentry_id_option
'gnulinux-simple-000000000000000000000000000000'
Or
menuentry ... --id 'gnulinux-simple-000000000000000000000000000000'
>
> Thanks!
> -Lukas
>
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-24 14:46 How to pick a kernel to boot ? Lukáš Czerner
2013-10-24 16:44 ` Lennart Sorensen
2013-10-24 17:46 ` Prarit Bhargava
2013-10-25 8:14 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko [this message]
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