On 2013-09-20 23:09 (GMT+1000) Basil Chupin composed:
James Knott wrote:
BTW, I can easily tell what the change was in the grub menu, as on new installation, or kernel update, the menu lists the kernel version number. I always edit that down to just "Desktop" and "Failsafe" and get rid of the version number etc.
Why do you wanna do that for? :-) Does the Does the version number give you nightmares or sumthin'? :-)
It reminds me of Windows, where app installation habitually appends a version number to an application title, not a whole lot unlike underscore-littered libs like libpython2_7-1_0 or libgimp-2_0-0 or backends like gstreamer-0_10. Current/latest kernel's version number doesn't need to be in the default or latest failsafe stanzas. It's obfuscatory noise.
I never touch anything in there 'cause messing around with anything grub/bootloader is just asking for trouble :-) .
No trouble here except for yast2-bootloader habitually disobeys my configuration specifications in /etc/sysconfig/bootloader.
"If it ain't broke don't fix it", as the Actress said to the Bishop.
"Ain't broke" is your assumption. Here, the only time running yast2-bootloader doesn't disfigure my menu.lst is when it follows uninstalling a kernel. On my systems the correct place for the digit to override the default target belongs as the last cmdline option, but yast2-bootloader always puts it elsewhere. Thus after every kernel installation I need to clean up after yast2-bootloader by manually editing menu.lst. c.f. https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=643984 https://features.opensuse.org/310673 -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org