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

[<mad.scientist.at.large@tutanota.com>]

Thank you!  Now I don't have to read all the grub2 manual right away.  Works mostly like I thought but first attempt was to edit the mkconfig- grub.cfg and I failed to back it up Properly.  I should have tried it first on a system that didn't have 4 other distros laying around.

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Jul 5, 2019, 1:18 AM by fturco@fastmail.fm:

> On Fri, Jul 5, 2019, at 08:05, mad.scientist.at.large@tutanota.com wrote:
>
>> So, is there either a boot loader that a human can configure manually 
>> that can handle LUKS partitions?  No uefi, but GPT would be nice.
>>
>
> I have a LUKS-encrypted system, GPT partitions, no UEFI, systemd, dracut, btrfs.
>
> I always manually create a /boot/grub/grub.cfg configuration file without using the grub-mkconfig command:
>
> timeout=-1
> menuentry 'Linux-libre 5.1.15' {
>  linux /@i3/vmlinuz-5.1.15-gnu rd.luks.uuid=luks-e384faa4-d3ad-4171-b38e-8961bddab43f root=UUID=90a73cbd-f378-4424-93d9-661cbfec9e5a rootfstype=btrfs rootflags=subvol=@i3 init=/lib/systemd/systemd quiet loglevel=3 rd.vconsole.keymap=it
>  initrd /@i3/initramfs-5.1.15-gnu.img
> }
>
> It is pretty simple compared to what grub-mkconfig usually generates, and it works pretty well.
>
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