From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 07C12138330 for ; Wed, 5 Oct 2016 12:55:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 67F6D21C06B; Wed, 5 Oct 2016 12:55:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2825C21C038 for ; Wed, 5 Oct 2016 12:55:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from katipo2.lan (unknown [IPv6:2406:e001:1:d01:c2f8:daff:fe83:ed01]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: kentnl) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BBD47341126 for ; Wed, 5 Oct 2016 12:55:22 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2016 01:54:51 +1300 From: Kent Fredric To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: the demise of grub:0 Message-ID: <20161006015451.2057cf79@katipo2.lan> In-Reply-To: References: <20161003215933.GA28448@whubbs1.gaikai.biz> <20161004222855.GB17685@whubbs1.gaikai.biz> <20161005142905.39e5e0e1@katipo2.lan> <20161005155725.333b04e7@katipo2.lan> Organization: Gentoo X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.14.0 (GTK+ 2.24.31; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; boundary="Sig_/HbPt2+HR8=ZePNd8eLwG4Wa"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 5b850829-9bcf-4115-a36c-93bb539c2a71 X-Archives-Hash: 4a843c629344663d648b543092fdee52 --Sig_/HbPt2+HR8=ZePNd8eLwG4Wa Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 5 Oct 2016 06:04:38 -0500 Rich Freeman wrote: > What you really want is another template file. I'd be happy with that. See the other thread with "grub-2" In the title. > I'm happy with mkconfig, but I did hand-roll my config files before > that. The docs are out there. However, for whatever reason, it is > very hard to find examples of simple config files online. The > official docs try to point you in the direction of mkconfig, and since > 99% of linux users don't configure their own grub there isn't much > alternative documentation (and when a distro's solution does break the > solution usually is based on mkconfig anyway). Yeah, the only reason I suggested "a tool" instead of "a template" is that perhaps there could be a handful of easily detectable things that generate a more optimal "initial" template. Particularly with regards to getting the hard-drive numbers and stuff right, that's what always concerns me. --Sig_/HbPt2+HR8=ZePNd8eLwG4Wa Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJX9PgpAAoJEOhUMksTZqggXDcQAJprRnJjIkQ5yXmqjA+Y+W3/ bKuS7XO1gpPuVjZjlPVXBVqlTEt7Ao2uM9oQdFlD3uY/LcYb/WIu4w87F2z1nLQx MFxg7TSzwXJODhZMlMRniYT0DJxHB5ofRB5SPZmAGO3DyHcNeFF+L9ZhA7pIwKjM Kr2JJQlnhszOllBwQVlLgUotNtvNXjcyV6FWStR4R2uJcFfy3T+TVZACJd8hH8bP 2otZ0d08aW/9q1NfK55ygiNiaAnNX2Bn23FHwIUjh7HJmJLCyT3XoFcp8T1R7Kwb YIu2Ev7c1NrPJS00luvZwH/WLVW+r8mM7Wz4ndRylzFSgFscPZnhF42yRy8QtYo3 shCjoozVp39ibwHzizaynBOZEXRNHlhMDmlCd9lN7DDmxZFAWwyO6zvtCNDQSWIl 99LG8Df7/sYjYCOr/eBt6MmQA1tintx860q6Ff/CfU5LgUx0gPECGzsoWFlG35B7 TM3UG/uEE6RIADikziXXSVvGGbcDBnQ9t0oj+M2ne14o+yW+dR16iMJ+Klk9AH+c BlWtPloHvXrY7p5lSKb1pVQcGd0ZSeX60wcVbtS/4eINLVns9jj6OQZjmY7wpYBh Skv/Bt2TY27j6BYlUv12+Q3lkrsbpHmhfT3I6kuc1EmgX47UUwoGf8EXy1BjTGaz TKr6z3kB3cvPyFP3VBDI =5Qbz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/HbPt2+HR8=ZePNd8eLwG4Wa--