Re: How grub generate menu.lst file kindly help

[Saqlain Abbas]

Ah, Ok! got it, thanks Andrey.

On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Andrey Borzenkov <address@hidden> wrote:

В Fri, 4 Jan 2013 14:09:44 +0500
Saqlain Abbas <address@hidden> пишет:

> 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?
>

update-grub command is not part of grub. As far as I know, it is
provided by Ubuntu.

> 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.