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Adding custom boot target to GRUB2
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In GRUB2 one doesn’t alter the main configuration file /boot/grub2/grub.cfg manually 
any more. Boot menu entries are automatically determined by the grub2-mkconfig script.

To add a custom menu entry, edit /etc/grub.d/40_custom

[...]
menuentry 'Custom Entry' {
  set root='hd0,msdos2'
  echo    'Loading Linux'  
  linux   /vmlinuz
  echo    'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
  initrd  /initramfs.img
}

Note that GRUB2 partition numbering starts with 1 (not 0 like GRUB) but disk numbering 
starts with 0, e.g. if your kernel and inital ramdisk are located on /dev/sda2, 
this translates to hd0,2.

On MS-DOS type partitions (which currently is the majority of partitions out there) 
hd0,2 and hd0,msdos2 are interchangeable.

To recreated grub.cfg with the added boot menu entry, invoke

1    grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg