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From: Kent Fredric <kentnl@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: the demise of grub:0
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2016 12:55:31
Message-Id: 20161006015451.2057cf79@katipo2.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: the demise of grub:0 by Rich Freeman
1 On Wed, 5 Oct 2016 06:04:38 -0500
2 Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > What you really want is another template file.
5
6 I'd be happy with that. See the other thread with "grub-2" In the title.
7
8 > I'm happy with mkconfig, but I did hand-roll my config files before
9 > that. The docs are out there. However, for whatever reason, it is
10 > very hard to find examples of simple config files online. The
11 > official docs try to point you in the direction of mkconfig, and since
12 > 99% of linux users don't configure their own grub there isn't much
13 > alternative documentation (and when a distro's solution does break the
14 > solution usually is based on mkconfig anyway).
15
16 Yeah, the only reason I suggested "a tool" instead of "a template" is
17 that perhaps there could be a handful of easily detectable things that
18 generate a more optimal "initial" template.
19
20 Particularly with regards to getting the hard-drive numbers and stuff
21 right, that's what always concerns me.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: the demise of grub:0 Patrick McLean <chutzpah@g.o>