From: Michael <confabulate@kintzios.com>
On Sunday, 17 April 2022 16:52:34 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
Why not try rEFInd? It handles UEFI booting simply, without the
no-longer-needed bloat of GRUB.
Hm. If I'm reading the wiki right, it can't handle choice of run levels with >> a selected kernel. Or is that wrong?
From what I understand you should be able to tweak kernel command line options
in /boot/EFI/gentoo/refind_linux.conf.
Michael <confabulate@kintzios.com> wrote:
From: Michael <confabulate@kintzios.com>
On Sunday, 17 April 2022 16:52:34 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
Why not try rEFInd? It handles UEFI booting simply, without the
no-longer-needed bloat of GRUB.
Hm. If I'm reading the wiki right, it can't handle choice of run levels
with a selected kernel. Or is that wrong?
From what I understand you should be able to tweak kernel command line options in /boot/EFI/gentoo/refind_linux.conf.
You can only choose between fixed combinations. Nothing like the possibilities of grub to choose e.g. options for resolution in one
variable, options for boot system in another variable etc and to
combine all of those (without adding an exponential number of
options to select from). Not to speak about the possibility to
edit the command line freely.
On Sunday, 17 April 2022 17:48:04 BST Martin Vaeth wrote:
Michael <confabulate@kintzios.com> wrote:
From: Michael <confabulate@kintzios.com>
On Sunday, 17 April 2022 16:52:34 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
Why not try rEFInd? It handles UEFI booting simply, without the
no-longer-needed bloat of GRUB.
Hm. If I'm reading the wiki right, it can't handle choice of run levels >> >> with a selected kernel. Or is that wrong?
From what I understand you should be able to tweak kernel command line
options in /boot/EFI/gentoo/refind_linux.conf.
You can only choose between fixed combinations. Nothing like the
possibilities of grub to choose e.g. options for resolution in one
variable, options for boot system in another variable etc and to
combine all of those (without adding an exponential number of
options to select from). Not to speak about the possibility to
edit the command line freely.
I see. I never had to customise the default set up in depth, or at all from what I recall. Perhaps GRUB with a manually edited grub.cgf is the solution to these particular user requirements
Yes, without a manually written grub.cfg you get none of these features -
the default grub.cfg is just horrible.
Well, the most powerful feature is probably still available:
The possibility to edit the kernel's command line, partition and path which theoretically can cover everything else, though it is rather inconvenient.
On Sun, Apr 17, 2022 at 3:00 PM Martin Vaeth <martin@mvath.de> wrote:
Yes, without a manually written grub.cfg you get none of these features -
the default grub.cfg is just horrible.
Well, the most powerful feature is probably still available:
The possibility to edit the kernel's command line, partition and path which >> theoretically can cover everything else, though it is rather inconvenient.
The GRUB bootloader just parses its config file, which can be manually
edited as you point out.
You also have grub-mkconfig
grub-mkconfig just runs a bunch of shell scripts to generate
everything [...] Obviously it would be more elegant to add a loop over
a configuration variable.
I'm not aware of anybody having actually done this, however, so you'd
have to DIY.
grub-mkconfig just runs a bunch of shell scripts to generate
everything, so you can have it autogenerate anything you want. It
seems like a rough way to do it would be to just copy the regular
linux once for each runlevel so that you end up with each kernel show
up more than once, and then the individual runlevels can be tweaked accordingly. Obviously it would be more elegant to add a loop over a configuration variable.
I'm not aware of anybody having actually done this, however, so you'd
have to DIY.
Hm. If I'm reading the wiki right, it can't handle choice of run
levels with a selected kernel. Or is that wrong?
From what I understand you should be able to tweak kernel command
line options in /boot/EFI/gentoo/refind_linux.conf.
You can only choose between fixed combinations. Nothing like the possibilities of grub to choose e.g. options for resolution in one
variable, options for boot system in another variable etc and to
combine all of those (without adding an exponential number of
options to select from). Not to speak about the possibility to
edit the command line freely.
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