Re: How grub generate menu.lst file kindly help

[Saqlain Abbas]

Thanks for quick reply, but the menu.lst file is generated when i run "update-grub" command, so it make me think this question may be belong to grub?

On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Andrey Borzenkov <address@hidden> wrote:

В Fri, 4 Jan 2013 13:50:35 +0500
Saqlain Abbas <address@hidden> пишет:

> Hi,
>
> I have customized Ubuntu distribution, along with several customization i
> have also changed distribution name, it works well. Currently I use this
> cutomized distro rootfs with Linux kernel  but whenever i Install grub, the
> auto-generated menu.lst file do have original distro name, My question is
> grub read which file to determine distro name, as i want to customize it
> completely.
>
> Sample snippet from auto-generated menu.lst file
>
> title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.17-10-generic
> root (hd0,4)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-10-generic root=/dev/sda5 ro quiet splash
> initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.17-10-generic
>

This is legacy grub which never generated menu.lst by itself at all. You
have to ask on your distro support lists how they do it.

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Kind Regards,

Saqlain Abbas.