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On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 1:09 AM, Kent Fredric <kentnl@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Wed, 5 Oct 2016 17:46:29 +1300 |
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> Kent Fredric <kentnl@g.o> wrote: |
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>> On Tue, 4 Oct 2016 22:34:11 -0500 |
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>> William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote: |
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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 the |
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>> > grub info pages. |
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>> > |
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>> > William |
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>> Just saying, it would be really nice to have some documented example cases |
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>> ship with grub-2, like it did with grub:0 |
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>> grub-2 via qlist grub | grep -i conf |
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>> Its pretty clear which of these we're getting pushed to use. |
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> There does however exist a /usr/portage/sys-boot/grub/files/grub.conf.gentoo on my system, |
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> It just has to be |
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> a) Updated to stay relevant |
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> b) Placed in a place I expect to find it |
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> c) Be referenced in the grub-2 post-install messages or at very least, more prevalent in |
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> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2_Quick_Start |
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> Because encouraging everyone to use it the way that has clearly seen |
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> resistance in gentoo doesn't seem to be helping. |
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> Though I do see the documentation is better than it was when I |
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> switched, the message that you can use a simpler configuration scheme |
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> is not prevalent enough for people to be noticing it. |
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I have added an example grub.cfg to the gentoo repository. |
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https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=ec629c23a6e8cf6c18fa51d69ae11932c7ada3cc |
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Please feel free to commit any obvious improvements or corrections. If |
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you have a common scenario you would like to see added, feel free to |
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ping me about it. |
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