[SOLVED] "Automatic" menu.lst title entries

[rc10b]

I'm running a rolling Cauldron installation on a desktop PC and have recently started updating again, now that it is open.
After boot and when the Grub menu appears, the first item is now "Boot Mageia 2". I know that the first three titles in /boot/grub/menu.lst are somehow "automatically" generated because the "title" description shown in the file is not what actually appears when the Grub menu is displayed. I have shown what actually appears in square brackets below:

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title linux           [Boot Mageia 2]
..
title linux-nonfb     [Nothing actually appears]
..
title failsafe        [Boot Mageia 2 (safe mode)]
..
..


Manually changing the titles can get overridden, or an extra entry can appear, when a new kernel is installed, so I would like to know whether it's possible, and if so where/how, to make changes to these titles, because I would like the Grub menu to show that it's Cauldron that I am selecting.
Any help would be appreciated.

[jkerr82508]

I believe that the equivalents are somewhere in /boot/gfxmenu. I don't think that it would be wise to try to change that file. Other than editing the stanza titles in menu.lst (which you say you have tried, but are not satisfied with) I don't know of a safe way to accomplish what you want to do.

Jim

[doktor5000]

Well, those are translated entries, so they will appear in your local language in boot menu. They come from the package mageia-gfxboot-theme
Source for that is available via http://svnweb.mageia.org/soft/theme/mag ... eme/trunk/ and the translated text is in the .po files in po/ folder.

FWIW, I've always wondered what that nonfb grub entry is about and always removed it as i found it quite useless when you can't select it from the boot menu ...

[rc10b]

Thanks for the clarification.
As I don't have the skills to change these entries I'll just have to live with it, it's not a deal breaker, but at least I understand a bit more now.
I agree about nonfb !
I'll probably have more to learn when(/if) Mageia moves to Grub 2
I'll mark this thread solved.

Thanks,
Steve