Re: Grub2 almost does what I want

[Felix Miata]

On 2013-02-03 22:58 (GMT+0400) Andrey Borzenkov composed:

> > >> How mkconfig decided what to create and where to locate are unfathomable.

> > > It takes list of /boot/vmlinuz-* and lexicographically sorts them.

> > It probably needs to find the one on the target partition with the biggest
> > numeric component to make default/top of list when all others are to go in a
> > submenu as Mageia does it.

> That's exactly what it does. But you manually created links with
> non-numeric "version" part. So how should they be sorted now? Before or
> after numerals?
> [...]

Current listing of /boot/vmlinuz-* needs changing to listing of 
/boot/vmlinuz* so that the stanza containing the preferred kernel "vmlinuz" 
(or "linux" if that's what the distro uses) when present appears first 
instead of not at all. (Had that been the case already, I might never have 
participated in this thread.) Those containing numeric strings should be 
sorted in descending order. The rest should be sorted in ascending alpha 
order. I would prefer all symlink stanzas be grouped before realname stanzas 
whenever the titles can be made sensible.
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