[ale] Continuing Saga of Centos 5.6

[Derek Atkins]

"Michael B. Trausch" <mike at trausch.us> writes:

>>> Just the simple task of changing your boot parameters in g2 took me half
>>> an hour to figure out what file to change and how to change it..  And
>>> even then I didn't get it right the first time!  Whereas with g1 it's
>>> boom -- there you go!  Open file, add options, save file, reboot.  Done.
>
> It is always the case that the familiar is more expedient than the
> unfamiliar.  I can change boot parameters---for all of my kernels, not
> just one of them---in just a minute or so.  You can even dynamically add
> things to the GRUB 2 configuration.  This is how the os-prober
> functionality works; it is called after the Linux kernels.

Ah, but see, I wanted to change the parameters only for ONE kernel.
Changing it for ALL the kernels was relatively easy.  Also, I had
trouble figuring out how to make a duplicate entry with a different
configuration.

I think I eventually gave up and just made the global change.

-derek
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