On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 10:39 PM, Daniel Frey <djqf...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I was genuinely annoyed with grub2 due to its update and massive config > files, so I never upgraded to it. I usually had multiple kernel versions and > grub2 helpfully labeled them all "Linux" so I couldn't tell them apart. > > I figured out you can still write your own grub2 files, and it wasn't that > difficult, other than its numbering is different now (no base-0 > partitions... argh.)
You can use search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root filesystem_uuid instead of root=(hdX,msdosY) and avoid having to deal with the grub1 to grub2 change of disks starting at 0 and partitions at 1. Why the grub developers didn't make disks to start at 1 when they made the partitions start at 1 is a mystery. Maybe we'll be surprised in a future grub3 :)
