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<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?><section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:ns5="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:ns4="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:ns3="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:ns2="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:ns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xml:id="setupBootloaderAddEntry" version="5.0">
  <!--Lebarhon 2015 07 04 Project for Mageia 5. The UEFI and BIOS systems are so different I think it is better to split the page-->

  <info>
    <title xml:id="setupBootloaderAddEntry-ti1">Add or Modify a Boot Menu
    Entry</title>
  </info>

  <mediaobject>
    <imageobject>
      <imagedata revision="1" fileref="dx2-bootloaderConfiguration.png" align="center" format="PNG" xml:id="bootloaderConfiguration-im1"/>
    </imageobject>
  </mediaobject>

  <section>
    <title>With a Bios system</title>

    <para>You can add an entry or modify the one you select first, by pressing
    the relevant button in the <emphasis>Bootloader Configuration</emphasis>
    screen and editing the screen that pops up on top of it.</para>

    <note>
      <para>If you have chosen <code>Grub 2</code> as your bootloader, you
      cannot use this tool to edit entries at this step, press 'Next'. You
      need to manually edit <code>/boot/grub2/custom.cfg</code> or use
      <code>grub-customizer</code> instead.</para>
    </note>

    <mediaobject>
      <imageobject>
        <imagedata revision="1" xml:id="setupBootloaderAddEntry-im1" align="center" format="PNG" fileref="dx2-setupBootloaderAddEntry.png"/>
      </imageobject>
    </mediaobject>

    <para>Some things that can be done without any risk, are changing the
    label of an entry and ticking the box to make an entry the default
    one.</para>

    <para>You can add the proper version number of an entry, or rename it
    completely.</para>

    <para>The default entry is the one the systems boots into if you don't
    make a choice while booting up.</para>

    <warning>
      <para>Editing other things can leave you with an unbootable system.
      Please don't just try something without knowing what you are
      doing.</para>
    </warning>
  </section>

  <section>
    <title>With an UEFI system</title>

    <para>In this case you are using Grub2-efi and you cannot use this tool to
    edit entries at this step. To do that you need to manually edit
    <code>/boot/grub2/custom.cfg</code> or use <code>grub-customizer</code>
    instead. All you can do here, is to choose the default entry in the drop
    down list.</para>

    <para>After a click on the <guibutton>Next</guibutton> button, another
    drop down list allows to choose the video resolution for Grub2 which is a
    graphical boot loader.</para>

    <mediaobject>
      <imageobject>
        <imagedata fileref="dx2-bootloaderConfiguration2.png"/>
      </imageobject>
    </mediaobject>
  </section>
</section>