[gentoo-user] Re: Human configurable boot loader, OR useful grub2 documentation

[Ian Zimmerman <itz@very.loosely.org>]

On 2019-07-05 14:25, Grant Edwards wrote:

> -----------------------------grub.cfg------------------------------
> timeout=10
> root=hd0,1
> 
> menuentry 'vmlinuz-4.19.52-gentoo' {
> linux /boot/vmlinuz-4.19.52-gentoo root=/dev/sda1
> }
> 
> menuentry 'vmlinuz-4.14.83-gentoo' {
> linux /boot/vmlinuz-4.14.83-gentoo root=/dev/sda1
> }
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> I shudder when I contrast that with many hundreds of lines of cruft
> that the mkconfig system would generate.

This is an overstatement

matica!2 ~$ wc -l /boot/grub/grub.cfg
148 /boot/grub/grub.cfg

2 kernels, no initrd, just like yourself.

Maybe you do need to take a look at /etc/default/grub ?

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