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On 2019-07-09, Ian Zimmerman <itz@××××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On 2019-07-05 14:25, Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> |
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>> -----------------------------grub.cfg------------------------------ |
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>> timeout=10 |
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>> root=hd0,1 |
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>> |
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>> menuentry 'vmlinuz-4.19.52-gentoo' { |
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>> linux /boot/vmlinuz-4.19.52-gentoo root=/dev/sda1 |
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>> } |
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>> |
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>> menuentry 'vmlinuz-4.14.83-gentoo' { |
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>> linux /boot/vmlinuz-4.14.83-gentoo root=/dev/sda1 |
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>> } |
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>> ------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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>> I shudder when I contrast that with many hundreds of lines of cruft |
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>> that the mkconfig system would generate. |
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> This is an overstatement |
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To be fair, I should state that I've never used the autoconfig stuff |
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on that particular system. When I converted from grub-legacy to |
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grub2, I just translated the old grub config file to the new syntax. |
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> matica!2 ~$ wc -l /boot/grub/grub.cfg |
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> 148 /boot/grub/grub.cfg |
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That's still a 15:1 ratio. It appears that Gentoo is a better than |
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some other distros. On a fairly simple Ubuntu server system with 3 |
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kernel versions: |
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wc -l /boot/grub/grub.cfg |
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265 /boot/grub/grub.cfg |
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On other distros/machines I've often seen double or triple that using |
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the installation defaults. You _really_ don't want to see the auto |
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generated grub.cfg files on a machine with a dozen different linux |
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installations, each with several kernels. Unless you disable the OS |
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probing module, it gets bad. |
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> 2 kernels, no initrd, just like yourself. |
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> Maybe you do need to take a look at /etc/default/grub ? |
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If you spend some time tuning things in /etc/default/grub, it gets |
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better. But, for my Gentoo systems I still find it far less work to |
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just create a grub.cfg file manually. |
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The semantics of /etc/default/grub also seem to vary to an annoying |
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extent between distros and versions. The semantics of grub.cfg seem |
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to be far more stable. |
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Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Were these parsnips |
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