Hey Pascal, On 4/23/20 9:58 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > It would not require to build a custom core image. Some distributions such as > Ubuntu that you mentioned reinstall the core image when grub packages are > updated, and I am not sure that the package can automatically handle extra > custom grub-install parameters.
Understood. That specific thing will not be an issue for my use case, as I plan to use this on NixOS, which can handle this use case since 3 minutes ago: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/85895 > Also, GRUB would not even need to use the LVM driver in order to load the > kernel and the initramfs, making it simpler and safer. If anything goes wrong > with the LVM, GRUB won't even be able to boot the kernel. With a separate > /boot, GRUB would at least boot the kernel, making the rescue initramfs shell > available. > > Native disk drivers are much less used than firmware disk drivers, so they > are also probably less tested. Then may contain bugs too. Also, when I tested > (a long time ago), native disk drivers were much slower that firmware disk > drivers. These are good points, thanks! I suppose a counterpoint is that at least GRUB's bugs would be in open-source software, and it comes with excellent mailing list support -- thanks again for that! Niklas
