On Sun, Oct 09, 2016 at 03:45:11AM +0100, M. J. Everitt wrote: > On 09/10/16 00:57, Ben Kohler wrote: > > > > > > On Sat, Oct 8, 2016 at 9:28 AM, Tom H <tomh0...@gmail.com > > <mailto:tomh0...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 11:34 PM, William Hubbs > > <willi...@gentoo.org <mailto: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/". > > > > Well "grub2-mkconfig" by itself doesn't write anywhere unless you pass > > a -o parameter. If you are "accidentally" running "grub2-mkconfig -o > > /boot/grub/grub.cfg" and it catches you by surprise that > > /boot/grub/grub.cfg is overwritten, you have bigger problems. > > > > Let's not make up problems where there are none. > > > > -Ben > +1
+1000 William
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