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Subject: bug#31159: Reverse order for old grub.cfg entries
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 16:04:44 +0200
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To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org>, 31159@debbugs.gnu.org

Hello,

Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:

> Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> This seems like a good idea ! If we decide to make it unconditional the
>> patch attached does the job. We can also make it configurable in
>> bootloader-configuration for instance.
>>
>> WDYT ?
>
> Thank you, Mathieu!  I doubt that there's a need to make this
> configurable, but I'd like to hear an opinion from Ludovic, since I
> guess he was the one who implemented the current ordering.
>
> What do you think, Ludovic?

I agree with you.  As long as the entry labels clearly show which one is
the most recent, that sounds good.

However!  On headless machines, we=E2=80=99d rather make sure users know ab=
out
this change.  On our Libreboot =E2=80=9Cbayfront=E2=80=9D server, GRUB for =
some reason
fails to display anything, and on several occasions we=E2=80=99ve had to bl=
indly
select an older generation.  Hopefully this is an unusual situation ;-),
but it could happen on ARM boards as well.

Ludo=E2=80=99.