On Sun, 9 Dec 2018 07:56:29 +0530, Amish via arch-general wrote: >Thats because you have assumed that people will install only Linux. >And that too plain Linux. Chainloading e.g. FreeBSD, Windows or whatsoever is even simpler. >And that too no grub modules. No fancy stuff. > >That too no failsafe stuff. Or LTS stuff. etc. etc. You could add all of this, but you only need to do it one time, not after each upgrade of a kernel. >Now if you have to hand write grub.cfg considering all of the above, I >dont think its as easy as 4 lines above. It still is, just a few additional lines are needed. >And I bet if you recommend above 4 lines to a normal user, he is going >to make spelling mistake even in above 4 lines that you have given. If this happens to me, I simply correct the spelling mistake. >Or forget starting or ending braces some where or forget new line. > >And then have a broken system in the end. This doesn't happen often and if it happens, it could be easily fixed with an editor. >I am not saying dont write grub.conf on your own. I am saying that >recommend tools first because tools are well tested and probes things >much better. > >If above 4 lines sufficed everyone and all cases - then yes its easy. >But from user manual point of view you can not recommend hand written >grub first. You don't mention all the failures of that os-prober and the other thingies. Some people don't want any fancy stuff at all, but a menu order that fits to their needs, so they would have to edit the configs for all those auto-crap. On my machine I've seen auto-generated menus with entries for installs that don't exist, after waiting several minutes to generate a grub.cfg, that could be edited manually in a few seconds, without this kind of mistakes.
