On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 Ed Greshko <ed.gres...@greshko.com> wrote:
> On 2020-06-16 07:01, Tom H wrote:
>>
>> The kernel options are in the BLS entries, so it doesn't matter what
>> you have in grubenv.
>>
>> From the grub2 changelog on may 13th:
>>
>> Store cmdline in BLS snippets instead of using a grubenv variable
>>
>> The kernel cmdline was stored as a kernelopts variable in the
>> grubenv file and the BLS snippets used that. But this turned out to
>> be fragile since the grubenv file could be removed or get corrupted
>> easily.
>>
>> To prevent the entries to not have a cmdline if the grubenv can't be
>> read, a fallback variable was set in the GRUB config file. But this
>> still caused issues since the config needs to be re-generated to
>> change the parameters.
>>
>> Instead, let's store the cmdline in the BLS snippets. This will make
>> the configuration more robust, since it will work even without the
>> grubenv file and the BLS entries will contain all the information
>> needed to boot.
>
> Thanks for that.

You're welcome.


> Just to complete my understanding, by the BLS snippets you mean the
>
> /boot/loader/entries/*.conf
>
> files?

Yes.
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