NAME¶
update-menu-lst - program to generate PV-GRUB's menu.lst file
SYNOPSIS¶
update-menu-lst
DESCRIPTION¶
update-menu-lst is a program used to generate the
menu.lst
file used by the PV-GRUB bootloader. It works by looking in
/boot for
all files which start with "
vmlinuz-". They will be treated
as kernels, and grub menu entries will be created for each. It will also
create the initial
menu.lst if none exists, after prompting the user.
It will also add initrd lines for ramdisk images found with the same version
as kernels found. e.g. /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.5 and /boot/initrd-2.4.5 will cause a
line of "initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.5 or similar to be added for the kernel
entry in the menu.lst.
After
update-menu-lst has been run for the first time, the user may need
to edit the generated
menu.lst, in particular the two options
update-menu-lst uses. Then re-run the
update-menu-lst script to
update the
menu.lst file using the default's that have been set.
These are the options passed to the linux kernel:
# kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro
Everything after "kopt=" is passed to the kernel as parameters. See
bootparam(7) for more information.
This is the grub device from which grub loads the kernel:
# groot=(hd0,1)
(hd0,1) is a partition in grub notation. See
grub(8) for more information.
This option controls if grub should create the alternative boot options in the
menu entries
# alternative=true
# alternative=false
This option controls if grub should lock the alternative boot options see
grub(8) for more information.
# lockalternative=true
# lockalternative=false
This option controls if grub should lock the old kernels.
# lockold=true
# lockold=false
This options controls what is used for the alternative boot options, multiple
altoptions lines are allowed.
# altoptions=(some description) some kernel command line options
# altoptions=(recovery option) single
The description is placed in '()' and the kernel command line options follow
that.
# updatedefault=true
# updatedefault=false
This option controls if grub should update the default entry to keep booting the
same kernel even if a new one is installed.
AUTHOR¶
update-menu-lst was derived from
update-grub version 0.97-66 by
Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>. This manual page was derived by
Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> from the manual page of update-grub,
written by Jason Thomas <jason@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux
system (but may be used by others).