On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Chris Murphy <li...@colorremedies.com> wrote: > > On Jun 18, 2012, at 6:36 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > >> Chris Murphy wrote: >> >>> >>> On Jun 18, 2012, at 4:08 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: >>> >>>> Chris Murphy wrote: >>>>> Grubby does not work fine with GRUB 2, it creates sloppy menu lists that >>>>> eventually break the advanced menu entries, as well as totally departing >>>>> from any user customization of /etc/default/grub. >>>> >>>> … vs. grub2-mkconfig, which totally departs from any user customization >>>> in grub.cfg. >>> >>> It does not totally depart. It is merely (highly) not recommended to >>> directly edit that file. >> >> Running grub2-mkconfig automatically makes it not just "(highly) not >> recommended", but basically impossible: Any edits will be trashed at the >> next kernel update! > > Which is why if grub-mkconfig is going to be used, the upstream prescribed > editing procedure needs to be used. If inadequate, the inadequacy needs to > addressed. As far as I'm aware, there is in fact no reason why you can't > remove grub2 and replace it with grub (legacy) if it has the exact behaviors > you prefer and require.
Unfortunately, the original grub does not seem to find my other boots. > I prefer GRUB2's self-produced grub.cfg's and I don't find it overly > difficult to get the customization I want – except for the fact grubby steps > on this, meaning I have to manually run grub-mkconfig to fix the grub.cfg at > each kernel update. > > Chris Murphy > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel -- -- Joel Rees -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
