On Wed, 2016-10-19 at 15:21 -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 1:20 PM, Joakim Tjernlund > <joakim.tjernl...@infinera.com> wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2016-10-18 at 12:45 -0400, Tom H wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 10:54 AM, M. J. Everitt <m.j.ever...@iee.org> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > On 11/10/16 15:42, Tom H wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > You can use exactly the same text in 40_grub that you'd use in > > > > > grub.cfg and have the latter generated. > > > > > > > > That's a useful tit-bit .. thanks! > > > > > > You're welcome. > > > > > > I doubt that the grub developers intended 40_custom to be the only > > > "/etc/grub.d/" file to be executed but it's practical for generating a > > > simple grub.cfg. This is what I use in a Debian VM: > > > > We still use grub-1 and I really like the automatic generation of new > > grub menu entries using genkernel --bootloader=grub, does this work > > with grub2 as well? > > It looks ike you can pass "--bootloader=grub2" but it's not documented > in the man page because gen_bootloader.sh has:
OK, good. > > set_bootloader() { > case "${BOOTLOADER}" in > grub) > set_bootloader_grub > ;; > grub2) > set_bootloader_grub2 > ;; > *) > print_warning "Bootloader ${BOOTLOADER} is not currently supported" > ;; > esac > } > > but it looks like, unlike for grub-legacy, you need a grub config file > ("/boot/grub{,2}/grub.cfg") to exist. That is reasonable, to create a new entry one needs to copy the previous and replace the kernel. Would be nice if someone could confirm this though. Jocke