On 2019-07-05, Francesco Turco <ftu...@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 5, 2019, at 08:05, mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com wrote:
>> So, is there either a boot loader that a human can configure
>> manually that can handle LUKS partitions? No uefi, but GPT would
>> be nice.
>
> I have a LUKS-encrypted system, GPT partitions, no UEFI, systemd,
> dracut, btrfs.
>
> I always manually create a /boot/grub/grub.cfg configuration file
> without using the grub-mkconfig command: [...]
I used to hate grub2 with a passion and stuck with grub-legacy as long
as possible. Then I realized that you can ignore the nightmarish
auto-magical modular AI configurator stuff. Grub2 is still a bit
bloated for my taste, but it's just as easy to use as grub-legacy if
you configure it manually. My grub.cfg files are just as trivial as
my grub-legacy config files were:
-----------------------------grub.cfg------------------------------
timeout=10
root=hd0,1
menuentry 'vmlinuz-4.19.52-gentoo' {
linux /boot/vmlinuz-4.19.52-gentoo root=/dev/sda1
}
menuentry 'vmlinuz-4.14.83-gentoo' {
linux /boot/vmlinuz-4.14.83-gentoo root=/dev/sda1
}
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I shudder when I contrast that with many hundreds of lines of cruft
that the mkconfig system would generate.
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