[gentoo-user] Re: minimal grub:2 install? [grub:0 being removed]

[Grant Edwards]

On 2019-01-17, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:

> I made the switch a good while back.  Even for me, it has been fairly
> easy.  I don't recall it ever breaking or giving me trouble.  When I
> build a new kernel and get the init thingy in /boot, I run this command
> to update grub.
>
> grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

I don't want to use grub2-mkconfig.  On my simple machines, the grub
config file (for either 0.97 or 2) is trivial and I prefer to maintain
it manually.  On my complex machine (about a dozen different distros
installed in as many partitions), grub2-mkconfig invariably guesses
wrong too much of the time.  Disabling the os-prober helps a lot, but
it's still way easier to just maintain the config file manually.

> To your real desire, I don't think there is a minimal grub2 install. 
> While bigger than the old Grub, it isn't to bad, given the size of
> drives nowadays.

I'm not worried about the size, I just don't want any of the
automagical config stuff happening (and would feel safest if it wasn't
even installed).

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