Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Tips for fresh install with GRUB2+RAID1+LVM2
Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 20:34:17
Message-Id: 20150520213402.23593c6b@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Tips for fresh install with GRUB2+RAID1+LVM2 by Bob Wya
1 On Wed, 20 May 2015 16:46:26 +0000, Bob Wya wrote:
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3 > Personally I feel the Grub 2 OS detection script sucks really badly. So
4 > much so that I completely re-wrote it so I got proper entries for my
5 > various Windows installs (version accurately detected using chntpw) and
6 > multiple Linux distros (sorted/detailed listings for all available
7 > kernel versions). OCD probably - but much easier to navigate!
8
9 Same here. I was prompted to do it when I switch to a FAT filesystem
10 for /boot, so the old method of relying on symlinks for the kernel names
11 no longer worked. It turned out to be remarkably simple, it;s just a
12 script that spits out menuentry stanzas.
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16 Neil Bothwick
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18 Press every key to continue.