Talk:GRUB2 Quick Start

The no-maintenance approach
I'm not sure where to put this right now - this seems to be as good a place as any:

I don't like that I have to auto-generate the grub config every time I update my kernel, that's so LILO. For me, GRUB is something I set up at the beginning, and then never think about it again. With a setup as described in this article, and in the main GRUB2 article, as well as the guide, the user is forced to do the grub2-mkconfig dance every time after a kernel update.

I solved the problem by having a menu entry that boots '/boot/vmlinuz' - the good old symlink generated by the kernel's 'make install', that always points to the newest kernel:

and instead use

That's better than editing /boot/grub2/grub.cfg directly, as proposed in the Manual Configuration section, because you can still change stuff in /etc/default/grub or elsewhere and rebuild the config, without having to edit grub.cfg again afterwards. And it's just much more KISS than that huge /etc/grub.d/10_linux.

--Padde (talk) 02:19, 3 January 2013 (UTC)