Currently, they take precedence when menu.lst is created for the first time, which is probably at install, before you even can have made /etc/default/grub, so yes this is pointless.
Unless you deliberately deletes the old menu.lst before you run update-grub, but that doesn't rhyme withe "update".
Currently, they take precedence when menu.lst is created for the first time, which is probably at install, before you even can have made /etc/default/grub, so yes this is pointless.
Unless you deliberately deletes the old menu.lst before you run update-grub, but that doesn't rhyme withe "update".