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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: myglc2 <myglc2@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Non-graphical GRUB configuration
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2017 10:39:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8760ilsx4q.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86zifymivo.fsf@gmail.com> (myglc2@gmail.com's message of "Sun, 02 Apr 2017 20:31:39 -0400")

myglc2 <myglc2@gmail.com> skribis:

> On 04/02/2017 at 22:13 Leo Famulari writes:
>
>> On Sun, Apr 02, 2017 at 05:06:20PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
>>> Based on the GRUB manual [0], how about this plan?
>>>
>>> We'd add these fields to (grub-configuration):
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> NixOS has the user provide a string:
>>
>> https://nixos.org/nixos/manual/options.html#opt-boot.loader.grub.extraConfig
>>
>> It is much simpler than my plan...
>
> I agree this is also workable. It actually is more flexible since it
> allows access to all grub config features.
>
> If you go this way, the guix doc should point the user to the relevant
> grub doc. Since one needs to install grub in order to read the grub doc
> in guix, it might be helpful for the guix doc to mention that as well.

Agreed.

I’m fine either way, but an escape hatch like this is always going to be
useful so it can’t hurt.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-03  8:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-31 12:59 question about pty,agetty for an intermediate virtual server image ng0
2017-03-31 23:43 ` Leo Famulari
2017-04-01  7:27   ` ng0
2017-04-01 18:33     ` Leo Famulari
2017-04-01 20:29     ` Leo Famulari
2017-04-02 16:31       ` question about pty, agetty " myglc2
2017-04-02 21:06         ` Non-graphical GRUB configuration Leo Famulari
2017-04-02 22:13           ` Leo Famulari
2017-04-03  0:31             ` myglc2
2017-04-03  8:39               ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2017-04-03  0:16           ` myglc2
2017-04-05 11:59           ` Leo Famulari
2017-04-05 15:14             ` myglc2
2017-04-05 16:07               ` Leo Famulari
2017-04-05 20:43                 ` myglc2
2017-04-06 15:18                   ` Leo Famulari
2017-04-06 17:34                     ` myglc2
2017-04-17 13:44             ` myglc2
2017-04-17 19:51               ` Leo Famulari

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