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Re: Is GRUB2 customizeable enough?
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Andrei Borzenkov |
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Re: Is GRUB2 customizeable enough? |
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Mon, 25 Jul 2016 13:17:55 +0300 |
On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 1:01 PM, Simon Hobson <address@hidden> wrote:
> Ah, another feature I'd never heard of. I do recall in the past the advice
> handed out here (as an alternative to renaming the files in /etc/grub to get
> Xen to boot by default for example) was to specify the default option to be
> selected in /etc/default/grub (Debian system).
As you mentioned, this ends up doing "set default=..." so of course it
accepts everything grub accepts including menu entry ID.
> If you are now saying there's another alternative, that's of interest.
Titles are just not unique enough, and grub-mkconfig generates IDs for
quite some time (and in principle it generates them predictably, based
on filesystem UUID).