Re: Valid grub.conf locations

[Ulrich Sibiller]

On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 8:19 AM Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Well, first let me say that the CentOS version has it also hardcoded and
> > loads the grub.conf anyway (from fw_path, I suppose).
>
> You are posting to upstream list, not to CentOS list.

Of course. I just want to illustrate that it's possible in principle.

(This brings up one question which somebody might know the answer: the
Centos7 version of grub has 486 patches. I am wondering why these
patches never made it to upstream. Is there simply lack of manpower?
Have these patches never reached upstream? Have they been rejected?)

> > Second grub-mkimage
> > requires the prefix to be set, that's where it is 'hardcoded'. You cannot
> > run it without specifying -p. So how can I _not_ set it?
> >
>
> grub-mkimage -p ""

I have not seen any documentation that this counts as "unset" and will
lead to different behaviour.

Uli