On Sat, 22 Aug 2015 01:30:56 -0700 (PDT), bildermejl76@gmail.com wrote:
The wiki sounds fairly straight forward, but I get lost where it says "install kernel" without saying how
Really? sudo pacman -Syu linux-lts
and to "edit the grub config file" without an explanation, and to "generate the main configuration file".
sudo nano /boot/grub/grub.cfg Then copy the entry from the "default" kernel and edit it to fit to the LTS kernel. Just take a look at it and you'll see it's self-explaining. However, AFAIK there are also update commands for GRUB, using some OS prober thingy to generate an updated grub.cfg. Did you take a look at the grub man page? Maybe installing the kernel automatically updates grub.cfg? I'm using GRUB too, but it's not part of my Arch install, it's a stand-alone GRUB and I anyway prefer to manually edit grub.cfg. Regarding a FreeBSD install I decided to use GRUB2. Using another bootloader doesn't harm, if you shouldn't really need GRUB.