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On Friday, 5 July 2019 08:24:14 BST mad.scientist.at.large@××××××××.com wrote: |
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> Thank you! Now I don't have to read all the grub2 manual right away. |
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Hardly anyone needs to read the whole GRUB2 manual, unless you're interest to |
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know the ins and outs of GRUB2. |
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However, it would be advisable to skim-read at least this wiki page, which |
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explains which files you could/should edit to make GRUB2 do what you want it |
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to do: |
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2 |
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> Works |
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> mostly like I thought but first attempt was to edit the mkconfig- grub.cfg |
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> and I failed to back it up Properly. I should have tried it first on a |
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> system that didn't have 4 other distros laying around. |
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As per the above page, you could edit the /etc/default/grub file to define |
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default variables, *then* run the grub-mkconfig command. Depending on your |
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needs you could also add files in /etc/grub.d/ or edit 40_custom. |
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You could create manually a /boot/grub/grub.cfg file, but this is NOT how |
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GRUB2 was meant to be used. TBH, if you want to do this, then why bother with |
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GRUB2 in the first place. You could instead install sys-boot/grub-static from |
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an overlay and use grub legacy by manually configuring its /boot/grub/ |
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grub.conf file. |
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https://gpo.zugaina.org/sys-boot/grub-static |
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Alternatively, there are other bootloaders to consider, with sys-boot/syslinux |
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or extlinux featuring as lightweight alternatives. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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