>>> On 13.04.15 at 15:33, <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2015, at 12:34 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> > (2) If the Xen install doesn't populate xen.efi into that directory, then 
> at 
>> > every Xen update/upgrade, will xen.efi need to be re-copied manually?
>> 
>> ... yes, albeit the grub scripts should be taking care of this as long as
>> there's a reference to the image from other than custom.cfg.
> 
> Here that's not the case.  Only a single reference exists
> 
>  cd /boot
>  egrep -rlni "xen\.efi|xen\.cfg" .
>   ./grub2/custom.cfg
> 
> custom.cfg is of course sourced,
> 
>  cat /etc/grub.d/41_custom 
>   #!/bin/sh
>   cat <<EOF
>   if [ -f  \${config_directory}/custom.cfg ]; then
>     source \${config_directory}/custom.cfg
>   elif [ -z "\${config_directory}" -a -f  \$prefix/custom.cfg ]; then
>     source \$prefix/custom.cfg;
>   fi
>   EOF
> 
> If the goal is to have the updating done automatically, where 'other than 
> custom.cfg' should that config be placed?

That's the wrong question to ask: When you want a non-auto-
generated entry, it needs to go there. Yet what gets copied
automatically is (afaik) only what is needed for auto-generated
entries.

> Or should the grub scripts be modified to handle it?

Perhaps that would be possible, but I can't judge whether that would
also make sense from a conceptual perspective.

Jan

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