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From: ruben safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com>
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Subject: Re: Learning about the Kernal
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 01:16:04 -0400
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On 03/22/2015 04:05 PM, Jerry Peters wrote:
> ruben safir <dont@email.me> wrote:
>> On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 20:19:05 +0000, Jerry Peters wrote:
>>
>>> As for grub2, just edit /boot/grub/grub.conf and add a stanza for your
>>> kernel, you'll probably have to anyway unless whatever kernel command
>>> line the crap in /etc/grub generates will work.
>>
>> All my most experienced freinds say this, which is what brought me here 
>> in the first place.  I found it hard to believe that the big Kernel 
>> hackers that worlk 10 hours a day on the Kernel are hacking grub.cfg :)
>>
>> ruben
>>
> 
> Why? Depending on your particular workflow you can just add a few
> entries to grub.cfg and reuse them as necessary.
> 
> My old technique, used with grub1, was to create symlinks to the
> current working kernel and another to the test kernel. The
> /etc/grub/conf file contained entries for both symlinks, change where
> the symlinks point and you select a different kernel, no need to edit
> the config file itself.
> 
> Current technique is to let grub2 find all of the kernels at boot
> time. I still use the symlinks, but only as a convenience.
> 


I have no idea and I'm not even sure what you are saying here.  The file
itself says that it should not be hacked.  Grub2 has update-grub.  the
initramfs are made from preset files using mkinitcpio

I wish I knew how to use the manjaro package tools directly.