Re: Fedora 34 Change: Unify the GRUB configuration files location across all supported architectures (System-Wide Change proposal)

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On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 10:48 AM Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 2:24 AM Vitaly Zaitsev via devel <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> On 31.12.2020 13:36, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
>> > I'll update the proposal based on the feedback.
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>> And what about users, who use Fedora with other GNU/Linux distributions?
>> These distributions can also switch to the same GRUB2 configuration.
>> They will all start fighting for the same file. That's why a separate
>> /boot/efi/EFI/$distro_name/grub.cfg configuration file was introduced.
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> That's Fedora specific. Upstream puts it in /boot/grub/ regardless of firmware.
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Also, this only solves the problem when installing different distros.
The problem still exists if multiple Fedora are installed since all
will share the same EFI vendor directory.

But yes, multi boot should probably also be taken into account in the
design. That's why it will be important to agree with GRUB upstream on
this and have buy-in from the other distros.

Best regards,
Javier
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