Re: Quick Ubuntu question

["Jerry Feldman-2" <user=4@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Sun, 2 Mar 2008 08:50:47 -0500 
"Ted Roche" <[hidden email]> wrote: 

> On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 8:04 AM, Jerry Feldman <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> > At the installfest, I needed to make some changes to the boot process 
> >  by adding a kernel parameter. In this case, I 
> >  edited /boot/grub/menu.lst. However, I found that sometimes Ubuntu 
> >  changes this back after an update. Is there a way via a system 
> >  configuration menu to set parameters. In this case, I turned off 
> >  splash, set verbose, and set noacpi. 
> > 
> 
> Yep, it was right there in the menu.lst file. It includes a template 
> that Ubuntu uses when generating new entries. It starts out: 
> 
> ### BEGIN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST 
> ## lines between the AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST markers will be modified 
> ## by the debian update-grub script except for the default options below 
> 
> ## DO NOT UNCOMMENT THEM, Just edit them to your needs 
> 
> ## ## Start Default Options ## 
> ## default kernel options 
> ## default kernel options for automagic boot options 
> ## If you want special options for specific kernels use kopt_x_y_z 
> ## where x.y.z is kernel version. Minor versions can be omitted. 
> ## e.g. kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro 
> ##      kopt_2_6_8=root=/dev/hdc1 ro 
> ##      kopt_2_6_8_2_686=root=/dev/hdc2 ro 
> # kopt=root=UUID=ec909078-a643-4f73-aeef-c4bb7aa69d28 ro