Make a change in Grub permanent?

iwtbf · 01-23-2010, 05:59 AM

When I enter my bootloader Grub I have to go to the system I want to load and press e to edit. Then I add vga=792 in the end of one line to change the tty resolution.
How can I make this change permanent?

My distrubution is Debian Squeeze and there is no menu.lst in squeeze.

repo · 01-23-2010, 06:01 AM

You can edit
/boot/grub/menu.lst

iwtbf · 01-23-2010, 06:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by repo

You can edit
/boot/grub/menu.lst

As I wrote in my original post, there is no menu.lst in squeeze =(

repo · 01-23-2010, 06:34 AM

Take a look at
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1195275

cola · 01-23-2010, 06:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by iwtbf

As I wrote in my original post, there is no menu.lst in squeeze =(

/boot/grub/grub.cfg

the trooper · 01-23-2010, 07:42 AM

You are not meant edit grub.cfg directly,it is also a read-only file.Why?.
Because the next time update-grub is run all those changes you put in manually will be lost.
Grub2 uses /etc/default/grub and /etc/grub.d for it's configuration now and reverts to them when update-grub is run.
Read the guide Repo posted.

craigevil · 01-23-2010, 08:19 AM

take a look at http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=41881