On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 8:03 PM, Kevin Buckley <[email protected]> wrote: > On 21 June 2011 11:17, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote: >> I have updated the book for grub-1.99. I rewrote the section >> >> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/chapter08/grub.html >> >> with fairly extensive changes. I'd appreciate feedback. I'm leaving >> the ticket open for now. >> >> -- Bruce > > Probably beyond the scope of LFS but this bit > > There is a command, grub-mkconfig that can write a configuration > file automatically. > It uses a set of scripts in /etc/grub.d/ and will destroy any > customizations that you make. > > is not strictly true and misses highlighting a useful finesse when > using the newer GRUB and > might thus be worth mentioning in BLFS. > > You can put a file into /etc/grub.d, which has a low number, eg > 06_known_good, into > which you can then put static menu entries that will then appear at > the top of the > dynamically created boot menu list. > > If you use commercial distros that re-run grub-mkconfig when they add > new kernels, > this is one way to make sure you keep the one you last used as the > default until > you're happy with any new one. > > If you considered using grub-mkconfig in LFS, this methodology might > be a good way to > instruct folk as to where to put a basic LFS boot stanza somewhere so > that it will always > appear, if they do want to run grub-mkconfig. > > Kevin
There was a recent thread about moving away from grub-mkconfig (which is what we did). http://archive.linuxfromscratch.org/mail-archives/lfs-dev/2011-June/064836.html -- Nathan Coulson (conathan) ------ Location: British Columbia, Canada Timezone: PST (-8) Webpage: http://www.nathancoulson.com -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
