Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Exact setting in grub to default to a kernel by name?

[Walter Dnes]

On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 01:00:38AM -0000, Grant Edwards wrote

> All my grub.cfg files looks like this:
>
> ========================================================================
> timeout=10
> root=hd0,1
> default=0
>
> menuentry 'vmlinuz-5.10.27-gentoo' {
>   linux /boot/vmlinuz-5.10.27-gentoo root=/dev/sda1
>   }
>
> menuentry 'vmlinuz-5.4.97-gentoo' {
>   linux /boot/vmlinuz-5.4.97-gentoo root=/dev/sda1
>   }
> ========================================================================

  Thanks.  It's nice to have a working example.  Are you booting via
BIOS?  I'm on a UEFI-only machine, and the generated grub.cfg has...

set root='hd0,gpt1' (EFI fat partition sda1 where to look for kernels)

linux   /vmlinuz-production root=/dev/sda2 (ext3fs on sda2)

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