Chnages in grub menu.lst will be overwritten

[Achim Bohnet]

On Friday, 13. April 2007, Jens Strohschnitter wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> we install debian-servers running on CF-cards.
> While installation via FAI, we've got dma-timouts.
> 
> Booting with paramter ide=no-dma on grub-bootscreen
> fixes this problem.
> 
> So we have created a seperate menu.lst-File as a
> class and copied it with fcopy to /boot. But the
> menu.lst file will be overwritten by FAI, so that
> the no-dma-parameter is lost while installing the
> server.

Check that you /var/lib/fai/FAI_CLASSES and see
if your class you used comes after GRUB class.
> 
> I can't find any file or class were this could be
> made. Does anyone know how and where FAI creates 
> the menu.lst for grub after the install ?

# grep -r menu.lst .
./scripts/GRUB/10-setup:fcopy -Uv boot/grub/menu.lst

Achim

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