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| From | David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: reasons to ditch LILO before upgrading to jessie? |
| Date | 2016-07-07 20:30 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <rSmdH-275-13@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | (2 earlier) <rRDJD-6BU-17@gated-at.bofh.it> <rRGoa-8tW-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <rRQQy-6Wm-15@gated-at.bofh.it> <rS0Gd-4SS-15@gated-at.bofh.it> <rSb8B-3fF-5@gated-at.bofh.it> |
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On Thu 07 Jul 2016 at 08:33:57 (+0200), tomas@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 02:23:39PM -0500, Don Armstrong wrote: > > On Wed, 06 Jul 2016, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > > YMMV, I find it impenetrable. > > > > I'm assuming you mean the generated configuration? It's literally just > > some boilerplate [...] > > Let's make it impenetrable boilerplate, then. > > FWIW, I concur with Jonathan. While I actively worked on my lilo.conf, > since grub (espeecially -2), I try to avoid touching the conf. > > Wonderfully general, but (for me) wonderfully unusable. > > Now don't get me wrong: without Grub, my box wouldn't boot, and chances > are that the "legacy" emulation of whatever monster bios is in there > is so buggy that Lilo wouldn't cope: therefore I am still full of thanks > and praise for the Grub authors for their hard work. > > Still I do disagree on many of its design principles. Well, I think it's a shame that there isn't a GRUB_ENABLE_LINUX_LABEL=true along with the GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID parameter. I did take a look at the scripts with a view to hacking one into shape, but it struck me that it would be harder to maintain it unless it got incorporated upstream than what I eventually did. Even if I succeeded in writing it. So I took the easier course of writing a python script to read /run/udev/data/b* and replace the --fs-uuid UUIDs in /boot/grub/grub.cfg with --label LABELs. Along the way, it also prettifies the menu strings and adds an fsck entry which I can call with grub-reboot 'fsck>fsck' (Again, I don't know why the scripts don't do this themselves.) I keep a before/after copy so that, whenever grub or a kernel is updated, I can copy the 'after' file if the 'before' compares equal. I don't think the scripts are much harder to understand than those in /etc/init.d/ which regularly come up here when people try to hack their own. Cheers, David.
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