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Tom H posted on Sat, 08 Oct 2016 10:28:05 -0400 as excerpted: |
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> On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 11:34 PM, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> |
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>> You don't have to use grub-mkconfig. You can write /boot/grub/grub.cfg |
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>> by hand if you want, and it appears that the syntax is documented in |
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>> the grub info pages. |
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> If you write "/boot/grub/grub.cfg" by hand and run grub-mkconfig by |
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> mistake, you'll wipe out your config. It's safer to write it to |
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> "/etc/grub.d/40_custom" and "chmod -x" the other files in |
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> "/etc/grub.d/". |
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Or simply install-mask grub-mkconfig, like I did, via package.env to |
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avoid polluting INSTALL_MASK for everything. =:^) |
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In /etc/portage/package.env: |
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sys-boot/grub pkg.env/installmask/grub |
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In /etc/portage/env/pkg.env/grub: |
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# don't use grub(2)-mkconfig at all |
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INSTALL_MASK="$INSTALL_MASK /etc/default /etc/grub.d grub2-mkconfig grub- |
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mkconfig" |
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PKG_INSTALL_MASK="$INSTALL_MASK" |
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Now that I'm thinking about it, it /would/ be kinda nice to have a USE |
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flag that did that, tho. Yeah, it's just a few arguably small files, but |
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when the absence of those files means the absence of a potential fat- |
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fingering... |
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(Tho not mounting /boot by default helps reduce the fat-fingering |
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chances, and having a backup /boot partition and grub installation on a |
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second drive helps avoid both that being a huge problem, and grub-upgrade |
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mishaps too...) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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