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).