Ok, you convinced me i can selectively read the grub2 manual for the essential
commands less scripting. I'll try that tonight. I would like to know where to
get the source of the legacy grub that observed gentoo use flags, I'm thinking
about simpler systems including a couple of 32 bit systems i'd like to use
occasionally for odd services and network play (on an isolated network so i can
also practice incursion and it's detection, response, and prevention).
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Jul 5, 2019, 8:25 AM by grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com:
> 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
> }
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I shudder when I contrast that with many hundreds of lines of cruft
> that the mkconfig system would generate.
>
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