Re: Help with custom Grub2 menu

[Andrey Borzenkov]

В Sat, 05 Oct 2013 12:34:42 -0500
Richard Owlett <address@hidden> пишет:

> 
> Andrey Borzenkov replied on  3 Oct 2013 but I did not receive it 
> from the list ;(
> 
> >When using grub-mkconfig menu is built using scripts in /etc/grub.d.
> > They are run sequentially and their output put into grub.cfg. You can
> > modify or remove any of them, or do not use grub-mkconfig at all and
> > maintain grub.cfg manually.
> 
> I had understood that much.
> In grub.cfg, I'm not comfortable changing more than the text of 
> the displayed menu line.
> After all it does say "DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE" ;/
> 

Because it is autogenerated and changes will be overwritten. But if you
are not using grub-mkconfig to generate it, you are free to do whatever
you want.

> Is there more descriptive information on the files in /etc/grub.d 
> than the included (very brief) comments?
> 

Not really; probably having high level overview in grub documentation
would be helpful. But all settings that can influence behavior of these
scripts are documented.

> > There are several attempts to create different tools to maintain grub.cfg.
> 
> Thank you
> 
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