On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 11:34 PM, William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > You don't have to use grub-mkconfig. You can write /boot/grub/grub.cfg > by hand if you want, and it appears that the syntax is documented in > the grub info pages.
If you write "/boot/grub/grub.cfg" by hand and run grub-mkconfig by mistake, you'll wipe out your config. It's safer to write it to "/etc/grub.d/40_custom" and "chmod -x" the other files in "/etc/grub.d/".
