On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 6:22 PM, Chris Murphy <li...@colorremedies.com> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 7:20 AM, Josef Bacik <jo...@toxicpanda.com> wrote: >> Cool so then we use grubby for these other cases and use the grub2 >> stuff for the grub2 case which covers the majority of installs and >> lets us use btrfs for /boot. Then as new features are added to grub2 >> for btrfs we don't have to worry about some other package being >> updated, we just automatically get them when we update the package. >> I'll take a look at what needs to be done when I get back from >> vacation. Thanks, > > Using grub2-mkconfig instead of grubby on x86 was suggested and > rejected primarily on the basis that grub-mkconfig discards the > existing grub.cfg, which can contain user add/modified entries, and > generates a completely new one. Ergo, grubby and GRUB upstreams > fundamentally disagree on the fairly basic principle of whether the > grub.cfg should be modifiable outside of GRUB tools or regenerated > from scratch each time a kernel version or boot parameter change > happens.
That is not the only issue. If grub itself gets updated and you run grub2-mkconfig the generated config file might cause issues with the grub that is actually installed on disk (we do not reinstall grub on updates). -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
