On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 3:42 PM, Iznogoud <iznogoud at nobelware.com> wrote: >> >> grub.conf is regenerated, and your mods lost, whenever a new kernel is >> installed. i know, i hated it when i first started learning grub2. your >> mods belong in /etc/default/grub and /etc/grub.d/40_custom. copy 40_custom >> to 07_custom and stuff in there will precede, and thus be what boots by >> default. put in there entries which boot via the kernel and initrd in /, >> those softlinks are updated whenever a new kernel is installed. then >> either regenerate grub.conf, or i confess i then edit the same mods into >> grub.conf as well, it's just plain far quicker. >> > > I confess, I do not upgrade kernels often, and I do non of that automatically > as you are assuming. Manual everything, system map, etc, etc, and a new entry > in grub.conf all the time. Sorry - - - -you're now commenting on someone else's words not the op. > > Yes, I should be /etc/default/grub-ing, but I do not. > > >> also if you're interested in how to boot multiple installs all from the >> same partition, just ask. >> > > Dee needs to know how to do that. I do this all the time, with multiple OSs > and lots of tweaks. What I can find is a lot of pages written from 2003 to about 2012. The few that are newer (newest 2015 which is still ancient by 'modern' standards - - - I think I was running debian 8 at that time) are talking about windows + a couple different distros. It seems that what I'm doing is something quite different. So there just isn't any information that I can find (looking through about 100 pages of 'supposed' links). Any pointers as to where to look? Regards Dee