On 2019-01-17, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is there any documentation on how to do a basic minimal grub:2 > install? > > I really don't want any of the auto-magical, devs know better than I > do what I want, os-probing, hide all the details from the stupid user, > config file generator stuff installed. I just want the bare minimum > required to boot using a hand-edited grub.conf file.
Perhaps I'm a bit too jaded from my experiences with grub2 on other distros. It's sort of implied at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2_Quick_Start#Manual_configuration that if you want, you can just manually edit grub.conf and not use grub-mkconfig. Do all the Gentoo package maintainers promise they'll never run grub-mkconfig as part of a any package (even grub:2) install, remove, or update? Other distros seem to have calls to grub-mkconfig sprinkled around in various other package install scripts so that you've got to manually hobble grub-mkconfig so that it doesn't trash your grub.conf file without asking because some other package got updated or installed. But then the next time grub2 gets updated, it get's un-hobbled and goes ahead and trashes your grub.conf file. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! The Korean War must at have been fun. gmail.com
