NAME

       update-menu-lst - program to generate PV-GRUB's menu.lst file

SYNOPSIS

       update-menu-lst

DESCRIPTION

       update-menu-lst is a program used to generate the menu.lst file used by the PV-GRUB bootloader.  It works
       by  looking in /boot for all files which start with "vmlinuz-". They will be treated as kernels, and grub
       menu entries will be created for each. It will also create the initial menu.lst  if  none  exists,  after
       prompting  the  user.   It  will  also add initrd lines for ramdisk images found with the same version as
       kernels   found.   e.g.   /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.5   and   /boot/initrd-2.4.5   will   cause   a    line    of
       "initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.5 or similar to be added for the kernel entry in the menu.lst.

       After  update-menu-lst has been run for the first time, the user may need to edit the generated menu.lst,
       in particular the two options update-menu-lst uses. Then re-run the update-menu-lst script to update  the
       menu.lst file using the default's that have been set.

       These are the options passed to the linux kernel:
       # kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro
       Everything after "kopt=" is passed to the kernel as parameters. See bootparam(7) for more information.

       This is the grub device from which grub loads the kernel:
       # groot=(hd0,1)
       (hd0,1) is a partition in grub notation. See grub(8) for more information.

       This option controls if grub should create the alternative boot options in the menu entries
       # alternative=true
       # alternative=false

       This option controls if grub should lock the alternative boot options see grub(8) for more information.
       # lockalternative=true
       # lockalternative=false

       This option controls if grub should lock the old kernels.
       # lockold=true
       # lockold=false

       This  options  controls  what  is  used  for  the alternative boot options, multiple altoptions lines are
       allowed.
       # altoptions=(some description) some kernel command line options
       # altoptions=(recovery option) single
       The description is placed in '()' and the kernel command line options follow that.
       # updatedefault=true
       # updatedefault=false

       This option controls if grub should update the default entry to keep booting the same kernel  even  if  a
       new one is installed.

AUTHOR

       update-menu-lst was derived from update-grub version 0.97-66 by Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>.  This
       manual  page  was  derived  by  Charles  Plessy  <plessy@debian.org> from the manual page of update-grub,
       written by Jason Thomas <jason@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

Charles Plessy                                   August 11, 2013                              update-menu-lst(8)