Re: grub, grubby, btrfs, was: PSA: Do not run 'dnf update' inside GNOME, KDE ...

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  Hi,

> > Adam, the only other distro that has serious alternate architecture support,
> > AFAIK, is Debian. How do they handle grub2 + non-x86? Likewise, the
> > alternate architectures that we support, how do we handle their bootloaders?
> > Are they grub-based? Ext/Syslinux based? Grub-legacy?
> 
> Nothing in Fedora uses GRUB legacy.
> 
> ARM is using Das U-Boot. I'm not sure if grubby is involved here or not.
> 
> Fedora uses isolinux, extlinux, grub2, yaboot (power7 and older), and
> zipl (s390). If the last two are gone or going away then it's syslinux
> (and variants), grub2, and uboot.

Hmm, uboot can use extlinux-style config files, and I recently noticed
grub2 has a command to parse syslinux config files too.  Have not tried
to use that though.

So possibly we can settle on syslinux syntax for bootloader config
long-term ...

> > I agree with Kevin that grub2 is.... nonintuitive.

... and have a fixed grub2.cfg which basically has the command to parse
the syslinux config file?

cheers,
  Gerd
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