How to edit grub menu (menu.lst) properly?

[Michael Goetze]

Hi Alexey,

> We have a deb packet that modifies /boot/grub/menu.lst file.
> But FAI ( we used config structure from example ) creates this file
> during GRUB configuration after "instsoft" task is done.
> 
> We tried to call "fcopy -Uv /boot/grub/menu.lst" in instsoft.GRUB hook
> but the menu.lst was overwritten by 10-setup GRUB script to default. So
> we need to modify menu.lst again but this method seems not correct.
> If 10-setup GRUB script was deleted then GRUB did't install at all.
> Can you please suggest how to have menu.lst configured once?

why don't you just replace your GRUB/* scripts with something like

$ROOTCMD update-initramfs -k all -u
$ROOTCMD update-grub

Keep in mind that grub-install is by default executed by an fcopy
postinst script, so you must retain at least one fcopy
/boot/grub/menu.lst or move that to one of your scripts as well.

Regards,
Michael