Adding Fedora15 to F16alpha grub2 menu {solved}

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 18:54 -0400, Scott Robbins wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 03:16:25PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 12:21 -0600, Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
> > > Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
> > > 
> > 
> > did you run 'update_grub'? it seems to be needed after changing grub2
> > config. just like lilo! ahh, the good old days.
> 
> You mean the command detailed in the Ubuntu docs that doesn't seem to
> exist in F16?   Someone better get on the Fedora QA guys about
> that...oh...wait....   :)
> 
> 
> Hopefully, soon Fedora will have its own docs, detailing the
> differences.  Unless a change is made, an F16 64 bit on a VM
> installed today does not have an update-grub, (by any name, such as
> update_grub, update-grub2, or whatever.)
> 
> 
> No, Petrus had the command correctly, grub2-mkconfig -o
> /boot/grub/grub.cfg  (And Petrus, thanks for the tip about making a
> custom.cfg, which does, as you pointed out, avoid the need to run a
> command.

ah. can you tell I didn't actually do much to grub2 yet? =) fortunately
it worked okay in all my tests.
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