On Mon, 14 Jun 2021 16:25:00 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
> Unfortunately, just like the standard grub.cfg, it's a tiny-looking
> text font on my 1920x1080 monitor that I have to squint at. Next
> step... what do I do to get a functioning GUI?
Set up a theme, you can use one of the supplied exam
On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 08:38:50AM -, Grant Edwards wrote
> Note that on this machine I just tell grub to search for the
> filesystem with the label "root" instead of specifying it manually --
> though it is still specified manually for the kernel argument. I don't
> remember why I did that...
On Sun, 13 Jun 2021 22:34:30 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
> > > 1) Is "insmod extfs3" necessary? I've built extfs3 into the
> > > kernels.
> >
> > If the kernel is on an ext3 filesystem, yes. This is GRUB's module, it
> > uses it to read an ext3 filesystem in order to load the kernel.
>
> Som
On 2021-06-14, Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 01:00:38AM -, Grant Edwards wrote
>> All my grub.cfg files looks like this:
>>
>>
>> timeout=10
>> root=hd0,1
>> default=0
>>
>> menuentry 'vmlinuz-5.10.27-g
On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 01:00:38AM -, Grant Edwards wrote
> All my grub.cfg files looks like this:
>
>
> timeout=10
> root=hd0,1
> default=0
>
> menuentry 'vmlinuz-5.10.27-gentoo' {
> linux /boot/vmlinuz-5.10.27-gento
On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 12:20:44AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote
> On Sun, 13 Jun 2021 18:57:49 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
>
> /etc/default/grub is only used when you call grub-mkconfig.
>
> > 1) Is "insmod extfs3" necessary? I've built extfs3 into the kernels.
>
> If the kernel is on an ext3 filesy
On 2021-06-13, Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 13, 2021 at 05:38:53PM -, Grant Edwards wrote
>> On 2021-06-13, Walter Dnes wrote:
>>
>> > I'd be tempted to do a manual gub.cfg if I had documentation.
>>
>> I gave up on the grub2 auto-magical config system many years ago. My
>> grub.cfg i
On Sun, 13 Jun 2021 18:57:49 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
> When experimenting with this, I'll backup grub.cfg. If things go
> awry, boot with the USB key I used for the install, and copy back the
> old known working grub.cfg. I've done a first crack at this. I assume
> that nothing in /etc/defa
On Sun, Jun 13, 2021 at 05:38:53PM -, Grant Edwards wrote
> On 2021-06-13, Walter Dnes wrote:
>
> > I'd be tempted to do a manual gub.cfg if I had documentation.
>
> I gave up on the grub2 auto-magical config system many years ago. My
> grub.cfg is typically 10-20 lines long. The documenta
On 2021-06-13, Walter Dnes wrote:
> I'd be tempted to do a manual gub.cfg if I had documentation.
I gave up on the grub2 auto-magical config system many years ago. My
grub.cfg is typically 10-20 lines long. The documentation is at
https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub/grub.html
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