Re: Understanding Grub2

[Richard Owlett]

On 04/16/2018 06:54 AM, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 06:09:41AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > It's my understanding is that "update-grub" is Debian specific.
> > My reading of the Gnu documentation suggested that
> >     grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
> > would *similar* functionality.
>
> How many seconds did you spend with the actual code before wasting all
> mailing-list readers' time?

Actually several hours.
While searching gnu.org for relevant information I had come across 
correspondence about a bug report suggesting that Debian's "update-grub" 
be ported to Gnu's grub. The consensus appear to be {at the time of the 
exchange} that it might not be best alternative and a pure Gnu solution 
was being discussed.

As a newbie I often don't what I don't know.
Also, I don't know what I "know" is wrong.



> jftr, on Debian, update-grub is a one-liner, calling, surprise
> exec grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg "$@"
>
> Greetings
> Marc