Bruce, thanks for the links you supplied in the thread on -dev. I’m including them here for reference.
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/grub2.txt? <http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/grub2.txt?> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-dev/2009-December/063355.html <http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-dev/2009-December/063355.html> There’s great info in both the hint and the e-mail. For example, I didn’t realize I could use grub-setup to see where and how grub populates directories when it’s “installed” as a boot loader. This is currently important to me while I’m investigating the works of grub-2.02~beta2. I have some questions about what you did with grub.cfg in the e-mail. 1. Although it’s commented, why use “gfxmode=“1024x768;800x600;640x480”" and not gfxmode=auto? I remember another example of grub.cfg you supplied in a thread that also had gfxmode set to a specific value. Is this a preference of yours? Is it specific to your hardware? Just found what you wrote recently. It’s essentially the same as in the e-mail referenced here. 2. You have: > if loadfont /grub/unifont.pf2 ; then > loadfont /grub/unifont.pf2 > set gfxmode="800x600;640x480" > insmod gfxterm > insmod vbe > insmod tga > fi There’s no “else” here. ARCH uses a similar set of statements. What’s the decision for grub to make? Additionally, you have: > terminal_output gfxterm > if terminal_output gfxterm ; then true ; else > terminal gfxterm > fi Unless it’s a situation of it “has to be that way in grub,” why not just have: terminal_output gfxterm terminal gfxterm Of course if you use grub-mkconfig to generate grub.cfg, there are scads of “if-then-fi” trees that just seem that they could be replaced by two or three simple statements. Thanks, Dan
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