Re: [gentoo-user] Exact setting in grub to default to a kernel by name?

2021-06-14 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 13 June 2021 21:58:05 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sun, Jun 13, 2021 at 04:09:58PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote > > > Or the OP could use Lilo, the simplest boot manager of all. > > On a UEFI-only desktop PC? No. There is sys-boot/elilo, which ought to do, but I haven't tried it. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Exact setting in grub to default to a kernel by name?

2021-06-13 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Jun 13, 2021 at 04:09:58PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote > > Or the OP could use Lilo, the simplest boot manager of all. On a UEFI-only desktop PC? -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] Exact setting in grub to default to a kernel by name?

2021-06-13 Thread Philip Webb
210613 Neil Bothwick wrote: > Isn't this a new laptop? If so, why torment yourself with GRUB when you > have UEFI available to you? The only real justification for using GRUB in > such a situation is that you are completely familiar with it and don't > want to learn something else. But if you have

Re: [gentoo-user] Exact setting in grub to default to a kernel by name?

2021-06-13 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 13 June 2021 19:05:29 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 13 Jun 2021 09:33:57 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 13, 2021 at 06:46:15AM +0200, Hund wrote > > > > > >Let me rephrase the question more generally... given a > > > >kernel "/boot/vmlinuz-fubar" how and where do I

Re: [gentoo-user] Exact setting in grub to default to a kernel by name?

2021-06-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 13 Jun 2021 09:33:57 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sun, Jun 13, 2021 at 06:46:15AM +0200, Hund wrote > > >Let me rephrase the question more generally... given a > > >kernel "/boot/vmlinuz-fubar" how and where do I specify it by name as > > >the default boot kernel? > > > > What about

Re: [gentoo-user] Exact setting in grub to default to a kernel by name?

2021-06-13 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Jun 13, 2021 at 06:46:15AM +0200, Hund wrote > >Let me rephrase the question more generally... given a > >kernel "/boot/vmlinuz-fubar" how and where do I specify it by name as > >the default boot kernel? > > What about this? > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Exact setting in grub to default to a kernel by name?

2021-06-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 13 Jun 2021 09:21:36 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > The default setting takes either the number of title of a kernel, so > default="experimental kernel" should do it. Forgot the obligatory RTFM reference :) https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub/grub.html#default -- Neil

Re: [gentoo-user] Exact setting in grub to default to a kernel by name?

2021-06-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 13 Jun 2021 00:07:27 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > I have multiple (would you believe 2?) kernels in /boot. > > [x8940][waltdnes][~] ll /boot/vm* > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7046848 Jun 12 23:46 /boot/vmlinuz-experimental > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6986624 Jun 12 16:55

Re: [gentoo-user] Exact setting in grub to default to a kernel by name?

2021-06-12 Thread Hund
>Let me rephrase the question more generally... given a >kernel "/boot/vmlinuz-fubar" how and where do I specify it by name as >the default boot kernel? What about this? https://www.stephenrlang.com/2017/06/setting-default-kernel-in-grub2/ -- Hund

[gentoo-user] Exact setting in grub to default to a kernel by name?

2021-06-12 Thread Walter Dnes
I have multiple (would you believe 2?) kernels in /boot. [x8940][waltdnes][~] ll /boot/vm* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7046848 Jun 12 23:46 /boot/vmlinuz-experimental -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6986624 Jun 12 16:55 /boot/vmlinuz-production The grub kernel listing at bootup is - production kernel -