Use the drop-down menu to view /boot/grub/menu.lst.
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FIGURE 22.2 Working with menu.lst.
The first portion of menu.lst defines options for the display of the GRUB menu, such as
the color scheme of the menu, the default menu option, and the number of seconds
(timeout) before GRUB runs the default menu option.
Following the display options is a list of items that will be displayed in the GRUB menu.
Each menu item begins with ???title.??? Notice in Figure 22.2 that this particular GRUB menu
will display three items:
. openSUSE 10.2
. Floppy
. Failsafe??”openSUSE 10.2
The remaining lines tell GRUB where to find the operating system files needed to run
Linux. These include the following:
. root??”This command sets the current root device to the specified device.
. kernel??”This command loads the primary boot image from the boot image file.
. initrd??”This command loads an initial ramdisk for the boot image.
To configure how GRUB boots your system, you can either manually edit menu.lst with a
text editor, or you can use the YaST System, Boot Loader module, shown in Figure 22.
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