Quick Ubuntu question

[Jerry Feldman]

On Sun, 2 Mar 2008 08:50:47 -0500
"Ted Roche" <tedroche at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 8:04 AM, Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> 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

Thanks. In the specific case for the installfest, what Dan needs to do
is to edit /boot/grub/menu.lst,
Replace the line:
#defoptions=quiet splash 
with 
#defoptions=noacpi
You can keep the quiet and splash if you like.  



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