Re: RFC: switching from grubby to grub2-mkconfig

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On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 7:05 AM, drago01 <drago01@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 4:30 AM, 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?
>>
>> Debian has worked like this forever, and IMO it's superior in pretty
>> much all respects.  There are already nice config hooks for making
>> custom changes, and they're a lot more reliable than trusting grubby
>> to do what you expect it to do.
>
> Well mkconfig can produce a configuration that does not actually work
> when grub2 itself gets updated (in which case the bootloader does not
> get rewritten).
> Until this is fixed grub2-mkconfig is dangerous and should not be used.

I have never seen this happen on any distro.  In any event, even if
there's a case in which mkconfig screws up, Fedora is unlikely to be
able to install in the first place.

--Andy
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