[TriLUG] Living with Grub 2

[Brian McCullough]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 08:55:36PM +0000, Matt Flyer wrote:
> Just the obvious, which wasn't obvious to me.  Are you using the 'local' file in /etc for your mods and then using update-grub?  If you try to modify /boot/grub items directly, they will get clobbered.

The short answer is: yes.

To be more verbose, to begin with, I was not making any edits to things,
but was finding more and more errors in the generated grub.cfg files as
I installed more distros.

As well, even when I do make use of the "local" configuration in
/etc/grub.d, the "automatically generated sections" duplicate that
effort and really mess up the Grub Menu.


B