Solution : be more open-minded... In hindsight, Grub2 is not all bad. Still not sure it was necessary, but.. whatever. I can now manage to do most everything I need/want to do with it. Issue : I have installed Fedora 16 on my recently acquired laptop. Overall I'm starting to appreciate the direction Fedora seems to be going. They apparently eliminated /etc/inittab, updated the boot process to use Gnome 3. One thing I can not comprehend is Grub 2. Grub was not exactly difficult to begin with. It was flat file with a bunch of similarly configured stanzas. Now it is a bunch of directories and config files and dependencies. At this point in time, Grub2 seems far less configurable than its predecessor. For example, I can not find a decent explanation of how to remove the Windows System partition from showing up in my boot menu. Nor can I locate how to update the legacy "splash.xpm.gz" to use a cool graphic background at boot time. I'd like to know what ...
Linux: The whole world made it for you... This blog is a collection of things I come across either at home or at work as a Linux Administrator. I have worked as an Admin working with Solaris, SAN, Backups and Linux at the Enterprise level for over 16 years.