On Mon, 20 Apr 2015 18:36:52 -0700, Daniel Frey wrote:

> > Better yet, upgrade to grub:2 already.
> >   
> 
> I only use grub2 on machines with EFI, and in my house that's only
> two...
> 
> I can't stand how it tries to add things automatically. It actually got
> so annoying that I created a manual boot entry that is symlinked to the
> kernel I want to run. It was easier than trying to fight it all the
> time.

GRUB2 doesn't add anything automatically, you have to run grub2-mkconfig
to generate automatic entries. If you want to run that but not generate
the automatic entries, chmod -x /etc/grub.d/10_linux.

On the other hand, if you want to kee things simple on a UEFI box, remove
GRUB altogether and use Gummiboot.

I use GRUB on BIOS systems and Gummiboot on UEFI ones. The version of
GRUB is whatever was current at the tome the system was set up. I never
saw a reason to change a working system from legacy to GRUB2. That may be
different now, but I retired the last of my legacy GRUB boxes earlier
this month.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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