How to change menu.lst of GRUB?(bionicpup32)[solved]

[mr-kumar-abhishek]

I have been trying to remaster bionicpup32, however I am unable to change the menu.lst file during remastering. Could some tell me at which step I should change the menu.lst file so that it could be copied into my remastered version of the puppy linux ?

The remastering setup only gives me option to customize /root and /etc files how can I change files which are used during boot such as fsckme.flg menu.lst and menu_phelp.lst ?

[mikeslr]

You can't. Remastering only changes the contents of the Puppy_version.sfs. Not the boot-loader.

menu.lst is a file generated by grub4dos if grub4dos is used as the boot-loader. To change what grub4dos writes by default you'd have to edit grub4dos.

[williams2]

You can search for .lst files

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# find /usr/ -name *.lst
/usr/share/g4dos/pcd/menu.lst
/usr/share/g4dos/pcd/menu_phelp.lst
# 

or use pfind to search in the system files.

The files in /usr/share/g4dos/pcd/ might be what you want,

Often, a remaster script will stop and allow you to make changes to the file system before it creates the new sfs file.

If your remaster script does not let you make changes
or if it really only saves changes in /etc and /root
you could try a different remaster script.

Or you could save your .lst files somewhere that will be saved in the .sfs,
like /root/.config/kumar and copy them when Puppy boots.
You could add a line like this to /etc/rc.d/rc.local

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cp /root/.config/kumar/*.lst  /usr/share/g4dos/pcd/

or to a script in /root/Startup

[mr-kumar-abhishek]

The files in /usr/share/g4dos/pcd/ might be what you want,

Thanks a lot for this info !!!

From this I was also able to find

1) /usr/share/boot-dialog/isolinux.cfg
2) /usr/share/boot-dialog/grub.cfg

I have another small question though, where are the DISTRO_DESC and #distrodesc# are defined which are used in these files ?

[mr-kumar-abhishek]

I have another small question though, where are the DISTRO_DESC and #distrodesc# are defined which are used in these files ?

If I am correct these are defined in /etc/DISTRO_SPECS , correct?

[williams2]

Yes, scripts like /usr/bin/uefi-usb-installer seem to read
the data in /etc/DISTRO_SPECS and /etc/rc.d/PUPSTATE
and substitute that data wherever it sees
"DISTRO_DESC" in the .cfg and .lst files.

[mr-kumar-abhishek]

Thanks a lot this solved my problem

[01101001b]

The files in /usr/share/g4dos/pcd/ might be what you want

This is pure gold! Thank you!

I had a related problem. My system is in sda1 and I maintain a booteable backup of the former in sda4. I used to boot from one or the other without a hitch, until something "weird" happened: Every time I booted from the backup, the right partition was mounted but the backup system now accessed to the *main* savefile (correct operation used to be: backup system accessed to *backup* savefile).

As I said earlier, the only working solution I found was in those files you mentioned. Thanks again williams2!