On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Tom Horsley <horsley1953@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:27:37 -0500 Dennis Gilmore wrote: >> >> the path to it being the >> default resides in more usage testing and bug fixing in fedora > > The path to it being a viable option first has to go through > the process of the utter elimination of the foolish update-grub > preprocessor to construct the grub.cfg file from a million > bits and pieces. > > Grub originally cleaned lilo's clock primarily because you > didn't have to remember to run extra tools to make the changes > take effect. Now the standard usage for grub2 requires running > extra tools again. Does no one remember how many problems > that caused? > > One of the primary reasons it must not use a preprocessor > (particularly the way it is currently distributed) is that > you cannot actually configure everything you might need to > change. You can fall back on editing various files you > aren't supposed to edit, but the next grub2 update you > get will probably overwrite your changes. > > You can even edit the grub.cfg file if you want to, but the > next kernel update will overwrite your changes. > > Until the one and only place grub config information is > stored is the one grub.cfg file, grub2 is unacceptably > boneheaded and should not be the standard boot loader. You're being unfair to grub2! :) Unlike lilo, grub2-mkconfig doesn't re-write the MBR; a big difference. Also, in grub1, grubby edits "/boot/grub/grub.conf" when a new kernel is installed so grub1's behavior isn't that different from grub2's. Whether grub2 has many scripts or not isn't an issue (for me) but I'd like, as I posted previously, to have more variables in "grub2-mkconfig" that I can modify through "/etc/default/grub" rather than have to edit "/usr/sbin/grub2-mkconfig", "/etc/grub.d/*", and "/etc/default/grub"; and have my changes overwritten but a grub2 update/upgrade. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
