On Sun, 30 Oct 2022 12:11:57 -0400 Felix Miata <mrma...@earthlink.net> wrote:
Thank you. > stan via users composed on 2022-10-30 07:23 (UTC-0700): > > >> Finally, I build /boot/grub2/custom.cfg from scratch that uses > >> volume LABELs and symlinks to kernels and initrds, and customize > >> /etc/grub.d/ to cause its entries to head Grub's menu. > > > I think this means that if you update any of the installed OSs, you > > have to recreate the custom.cfg menu to incorporate the changes. > > And > > Depends on the nature of the update. Only major updates may require > updates, depending on specificity of labels used in building > custom.cfg. If in upgrading a release, and you change the LABEL of > the / filesystem, and depend on LABELs in boot stanzas, updating is > required. Ordinary updates, such as new kernels, require no updates, > because the symlinks used in custom.cfg don't change, only the > initrds and kernels they point to. Distros I use other than Fedora > create the required symlinks automatically, e.g. all Debians & its > derivatives, openSUSE, Mageia. > > > that you have to have a custom utility you run in order to do that. > > Would you be willing to share that utility, and your customizations > > of /etc/grub.d? > > I have had no compulsion to create any such utility. All it would to > would be to automate symlink creation on Fedora when new kernels are > installed that is done automatically by other distros. > > My method of /etc/grub.d/ customization only requires making a copy > of 40_custom named 06_custom, which puts custom.cfg's entries at the > top of Grub's boot menu. > > > This will work great, but I wouldn't consider it trivial for a new > > user of Fedora. > > That would depend on what makes a Fedora user a "new" Fedora user. > New to Fedora but not new to Linux multibooting it ought to have > already become trivial if multiple versions of any same distro had > been employed. New to multibooting, whether or not new to Fedora, not > so trivial, but it's newness to multibooting and/or UEFI that would > be the bigger part of making it non-trivial. > > <https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/533087-How-to-have-a-custom-UEFI-grub-menu-for-a-multiboot-system?p=2880389#post2880389> > has an example of the simplicity of custom.cfg. > > <https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/533087-How-to-have-a-custom-UEFI-grub-menu-for-a-multiboot-system?p=2891383#post2891383> > has an even simpler method, chainloading, which I don't use because I > don't want more than one distro messing with NVRAM's boot order. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
