On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 Stephen Morris <samorris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 16/6/20 9:06 am, Ed Greshko 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. >> >> Just to complete my understanding, by the BLS snippets you mean the >> >> /boot/loader/entries/*.conf >> >> files? > > If GRUB_ENABLE_BLSCFG=false is not going to be supported anymore, how > does one disable BLS if we don't want it? You MAY be right in assuming that Fedora might choose only to support BLS. If that day comes, we'll use BLS. I hope that, by then, we'll have a way to customize the snippets, for example, not to use the machine-id UUIDs. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
