From: Grant Taylor <gtaylor@gentoo.tnetconsulting.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Human configurable boot loader, OR useful grub2 documentation
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2019 14:56:45 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0a87881f-1d15-b082-b4a2-bc5e7c690ba0@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190705205754.4757190d@digimed.co.uk>
On 7/5/19 1:57 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> In the case of GRUB2 that is unlikely to be the case, as it is meant
> to do everything. That's why the auto-generated config files are so
> long and full of conditionals. On a system you have full control over,
> you can remove all the conditionals.
I had grub-mkconfig puke on me recently. I've not spent time diagnosing
why.
/boot was a local disk (/dev/sda1) per Gentoo install documents.
/ (root) was special in that it was /dev/nfs.
Grub (grub-mkconfig) tossed it's salad, saying:
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: failed to get canonical path of
'192.0.2.1:/export/hostname/root'
With a return code of 1.
> GRUB2 is incredibly bendy, if only the documentation were as compliant
> to the wishes of its users,
Sometimes I wonder just how bendy it really is.
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-05 20:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-05 6:05 [gentoo-user] Human configurable boot loader, OR useful grub2 documentation mad.scientist.at.large
2019-07-05 7:18 ` Francesco Turco
2019-07-05 7:24 ` mad.scientist.at.large
2019-07-05 8:10 ` Mick
2019-07-05 14:04 ` Rich Freeman
2019-07-05 15:32 ` Grant Taylor
2019-07-05 19:57 ` Neil Bothwick
2019-07-05 20:56 ` Grant Taylor [this message]
2019-07-05 14:25 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2019-07-09 3:05 ` mad.scientist.at.large
2019-07-09 17:17 ` Ian Zimmerman
2019-07-09 19:53 ` Grant Edwards
2019-07-05 9:03 ` [gentoo-user] " Philip Webb
2019-07-09 4:30 ` Ian Bloss
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