Re: RFC: switching from grubby to grub2-mkconfig

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On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 4:14 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 10:30 PM, Andrew Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Since the old proposal to have the bootloader automatically enumerate
>> boot options never went anywhere, can we do the next best thing?
>>
>> Specifically, these days grub2-mkconfig appears to produce output
>> that's functionally identical to what grubby generates.  Can we switch
>> new-kernel-pkg to just regenerate the grub2 config using
>> grub2-mkconfig instead of using grubby?
>
> I don't think so.  Despite the similarity in name, grubby does more
> than just deal with grub stuff.  Namely, it handles bootloaders that
> aren't grub.  We're close to having all arches on grub2, but I believe
> armv7hl won't ever get there and it's a primary arch.

Correct, I also believe there's plans to move the cloud images back to
syslinux. Both ARMv7 and at least some of the cloud images use
exlinux.conf. I believe pjones was developing a new version of grubby
or a replacement to it.

Peter
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