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 1A01B138334 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2019 17:17:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8D7A9E0824; Tue, 9 Jul 2019 17:17:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from very.loosely.org (very.loosely.org [173.255.215.69]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 28C0EE07EA for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2019 17:17:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from c-67-174-233-217.hsd1.ca.comcast.net ([67.174.233.217]:44544 helo=foolinux.mooo.com) by ahiker.mooo.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92-111-1a207ebe0) (envelope-from ) id 1hktkA-0006wj-JQ; Tue, 09 Jul 2019 10:17:30 -0700 Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2019 10:17:23 -0700 From: Ian Zimmerman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Human configurable boot loader, OR useful grub2 documentation Message-ID: <20190709171723.tc4rzcsr6z2uvzwq@matica.foolinux.mooo.com> References: <5a75d07f-811f-4747-a91a-209cd4eef86e@www.fastmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: NeoMutt/20180716 X-Loosely-ASN: 7922 X-Archives-Salt: 47c785f6-8b81-41f1-9cd7-838efe0411b0 X-Archives-Hash: 76340d579c41cf929dddaec5d031e961 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 ? -- Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet, if you also post the followup to the list or newsgroup. To reply privately _only_ on Usenet and on broken lists which rewrite From, fetch the TXT record for no-use.mooo.com.