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On 7/5/19 1:57 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> In the case of GRUB2 that is unlikely to be the case, as it is meant |
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> to do everything. That's why the auto-generated config files are so |
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> long and full of conditionals. On a system you have full control over, |
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> you can remove all the conditionals. |
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I had grub-mkconfig puke on me recently. I've not spent time diagnosing |
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why. |
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/boot was a local disk (/dev/sda1) per Gentoo install documents. |
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/ (root) was special in that it was /dev/nfs. |
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Grub (grub-mkconfig) tossed it's salad, saying: |
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/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: failed to get canonical path of |
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'192.0.2.1:/export/hostname/root' |
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With a return code of 1. |
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> GRUB2 is incredibly bendy, if only the documentation were as compliant |
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> to the wishes of its users, |
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Sometimes I wonder just how bendy it really is. |
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Grant. . . . |
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unix || die |