Michael <confabul...@kintzios.com> wrote: > On Sunday, 17 April 2022 17:48:04 BST Martin Vaeth wrote: >> Michael <confabul...@kintzios.com> wrote: >> > From: Michael <confabul...@kintzios.com> >> > >> > On Sunday, 17 April 2022 16:52:34 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: >> >> > Why not try rEFInd? It handles UEFI booting simply, without the >> >> > no-longer-needed bloat of GRUB. >> >> >> >> Hm. If I'm reading the wiki right, it can't handle choice of run levels >> >> with a selected kernel. Or is that wrong? >> > >> > From what I understand you should be able to tweak kernel command line >> > options in /boot/EFI/gentoo/refind_linux.conf. >> >> You can only choose between fixed combinations. Nothing like the >> possibilities of grub to choose e.g. options for resolution in one >> variable, options for boot system in another variable etc and to >> combine all of those (without adding an exponential number of >> options to select from). Not to speak about the possibility to >> edit the command line freely. > > I see. I never had to customise the default set up in depth, or at all from > what I recall. Perhaps GRUB with a manually edited grub.cgf is the solution > to these particular user requirements
Yes, without a manually written grub.cfg you get none of these features - the default grub.cfg is just horrible. Well, the most powerful feature is probably still available: The possibility to edit the kernel's command line, partition and path which theoretically can cover everything else, though it is rather inconvenient.
