starting with a grub menu.lst, cat /boot/grub/menu.lst default 0 timeout 8 gfxmenu (hd0)/boot/message title PVGRUB root (hd0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.25-9-xen root=/dev/xvdc resume=/dev/xvdb kbdtype=us text nofb selinux=0 edd=off splash=silent noshell showopts initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.27.25-9-xen after a/any zypper kernel upgrade, menu.lst is modified, e.g., to, cat /boot/grub/menu.lst # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Thu Jun 25 16:43:29 EDT 2009 default 2 timeout 8 gfxmenu (hd0)/boot/message ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux### title Xen -- openSUSE 11.1 - 2.6.27.25-10 (xen) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27.25-10-xen root=/dev/xvdc resume=/dev/xvdb kbdtype=us text nofb selinux=0 edd=off splash=silent noshell showopts initrd /initrd-2.6.27.25-10-xen ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux### title Xen -- openSUSE 11.1 - 2.6.27.25-10 (xen) kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz-2.6.27.25-10-xen root=/dev/xvdc resume=/dev/xvdb kbdtype=us text nofb selinux=0 edd=off splash=silent noshell showopts initrd (hd0,0)/initrd-2.6.27.25-10-xen title PVGRUB root (hd0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.25-9-xen root=/dev/xvdc resume=/dev/xvdb kbdtype=us text nofb selinux=0 edd=off splash=silent noshell showopts initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.27.25-9-xen what specific config changes do i need to make to get the newly written configs to: (1) correctly use/write, root (hd0) instead of root (hd0,0) (2) write the kernel/initrd entries as kernel /boot/vmlinuz... initrd /boot/initrd... not, kernel /vmlinuz... initrd /initrd... fyi, config files, as default-installed are, /etc/sysconfig/bootloader ## Path: System/Bootloader ## Description: Bootloader configuration ## Type: list(grub,lilo,none) ## Default: grub LOADER_TYPE="grub" ## Path: System/Bootloader ## Description: Bootloader configuration ## Type: list(floppy,mbr,root,boot,custom,none) ## Default: mbr # # Location of boot loader. # For making the change effect run bootloader configuration tool # # LOADER_LOCATION="" /etc/grub setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 (hd0,0) (hd0,0) quit thanks! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: yast-devel+help@opensuse.org