On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 7:05 AM, drago01 <drag...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 4:30 AM, Andrew Lutomirski <l...@mit.edu> wrote: >> Since the old proposal to have the bootloader automatically enumerate >> boot options never went anywhere, can we do the next best thing? >> >> Specifically, these days grub2-mkconfig appears to produce output >> that's functionally identical to what grubby generates. Can we switch >> new-kernel-pkg to just regenerate the grub2 config using >> grub2-mkconfig instead of using grubby? >> >> Debian has worked like this forever, and IMO it's superior in pretty >> much all respects. There are already nice config hooks for making >> custom changes, and they're a lot more reliable than trusting grubby >> to do what you expect it to do. > > Well mkconfig can produce a configuration that does not actually work > when grub2 itself gets updated (in which case the bootloader does not > get rewritten). > Until this is fixed grub2-mkconfig is dangerous and should not be used.
I have never seen this happen on any distro. In any event, even if there's a case in which mkconfig screws up, Fedora is unlikely to be able to install in the first place. --Andy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
