On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 4:30 AM, Andrew Lutomirski <l...@mit.edu> wrote: > Since the old proposal to have the bootloader automatically enumerate > boot options never went anywhere, can we do the next best thing? > > Specifically, these days grub2-mkconfig appears to produce output > that's functionally identical to what grubby generates. Can we switch > new-kernel-pkg to just regenerate the grub2 config using > grub2-mkconfig instead of using grubby? > > Debian has worked like this forever, and IMO it's superior in pretty > much all respects. There are already nice config hooks for making > custom changes, and they're a lot more reliable than trusting grubby > to do what you expect it to do.
Well mkconfig can produce a configuration that does not actually work when grub2 itself gets updated (in which case the bootloader does not get rewritten). Until this is fixed grub2-mkconfig is dangerous and should not be used. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
