On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Tom Horsley <horsley1953@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 23:29:19 -0400 > Tom H wrote: >> Unlike lilo, grub2-mkconfig doesn't re-write the MBR; a big >> difference. > > Not really. Just because you have to run extra commands for > a different reason doesn't mean it isn't just as irritating. > Come to think of it, at least lilo had a good reason to make > you run extra commands, grub2 only has idiotic design decisions > as a reason. I don't think that once grub2 is production-ready in Fedora that extra commands'll have to be run when a kernel is installed or uninstalled. >> 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. > > But it is: /boot/grub/grub.conf is the one and only place > where grub config is stored so if you edit it by hand, > unless you do something that horribly confuses grubby, > you will not have your changes destroyed by grubby. > > Until /boot/grub/grub.cfg is the one and only place where > config information is stored in grub2, it will be inferior > to grub (no matter how many millions of loadable modules > it comes with :-). "/etc/default/grub" is meant to be the only grub2 file to edit. Unfortunately, there aren't enough options available (as we've both listed earlier in this thread). Before I gave up on getting everything to be as I wanted, I used to edit "/etc/default/grub", most of the scripts in "/etc/grub.d", and "/usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig"... Definitely not pleasant or efficient. -- 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