[arch-general] Package grub Encourages Warnings to be Ignored.

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 9 Dec 2018 07:56:29 +0530, Amish via arch-general wrote:
>Thats because you have assumed that people will install only Linux.
>And that too plain Linux.

Chainloading e.g. FreeBSD, Windows or whatsoever is even simpler.

>And that too no grub modules. No fancy stuff.
>
>That too no failsafe stuff. Or LTS stuff. etc. etc.

You could add all of this, but you only need to do it one time, not
after each upgrade of a kernel.

>Now if you have to hand write grub.cfg considering all of the above, I 
>dont think its as easy as 4 lines above.

It still is, just a few additional lines are needed.

>And I bet if you recommend above 4 lines to a normal user, he is going 
>to make spelling mistake even in above 4 lines that you have given.

If this happens to me, I simply correct the spelling mistake.

>Or forget starting or ending braces some where or forget new line.
>
>And then have a broken system in the end.

This doesn't happen often and if it happens, it could be easily fixed
with an editor.

>I am not saying dont write grub.conf on your own. I am saying that 
>recommend tools first because tools are well tested and probes things 
>much better.
>
>If above 4 lines sufficed everyone and all cases - then yes its easy. 
>But from user manual point of view you can not recommend hand written 
>grub first.

You don't mention all the failures of that os-prober and the other
thingies.

Some people don't want any fancy stuff at all, but a menu order that
fits to their needs, so they would have to edit the configs for all
those auto-crap. On my machine I've seen auto-generated menus with
entries for installs that don't exist, after waiting several minutes to
generate a grub.cfg, that could be edited manually in a few seconds,
without this kind of mistakes.