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On Thu, 6 Oct 2016 01:54:51 +1300 |
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Kent Fredric <kentnl@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Wed, 5 Oct 2016 06:04:38 -0500 |
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> Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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> > What you really want is another template file. |
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> I'd be happy with that. See the other thread with "grub-2" In the |
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> title. |
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> > I'm happy with mkconfig, but I did hand-roll my config files before |
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> > that. The docs are out there. However, for whatever reason, it is |
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> > very hard to find examples of simple config files online. The |
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> > official docs try to point you in the direction of mkconfig, and |
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> > since 99% of linux users don't configure their own grub there isn't |
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> > much alternative documentation (and when a distro's solution does |
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> > break the solution usually is based on mkconfig anyway). |
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> Yeah, the only reason I suggested "a tool" instead of "a template" is |
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> that perhaps there could be a handful of easily detectable things that |
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> generate a more optimal "initial" template. |
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> Particularly with regards to getting the hard-drive numbers and stuff |
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> right, that's what always concerns me. |
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I have attached a somewhat cleaned up and commented version of the |
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hand-written grub config I use at home. Feel free to use as an example |
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for your machines, add it to the wiki and/or the handbook, or make the |
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ebuild install it to /usr/share etc. |
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One of the nice things about grub2 is that you no longer need to know |
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or care about the BIOS disk numbers, you can simply use the UUID of the |
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filesystem (and/or the PARTUUID for the kernel). |
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