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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] alternative kernels
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On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 12:16 PM, Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
> On Friday 31 October 2014 15:09:26 J. Roeleveld wrote:
>>
>> I've got a few systems where grub1 doesn't work. This is more likely caused
>> by some changes in used filesystems instead of any other cause.
>> If I really wanted to, I might get it to work, but I don't see the point in
>> spending time on this.
>> Grub starts the boot process and then, afaik, disappears.
>> Which is sufficient for me.
>
> My grub-0.99 lets me choose from four kernels and two or three run levels at
> boot time, and grub-2 can't handle this yet, or it couldn't the last time I
> checked. I don't suggest that everyone has a similar need, but at least in
> some cases the old grub does still have a place.

You can edit "/etc/grub.d/10_linux" to add more than the regular and
the recovery entries.

You can also "chmod -x" the files in "/etc/grub.d/*" and create manual
entries in 40_custom (and keep it executable!).