Grub2 mkconfig

[Timothy Davis]

On Wed, 2012-02-22 at 08:22 -0700, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Timothy Davis <cpuobsessed at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Once again grub2 has installed dozens (at least 20) different entries in my
> > boot menu. I understand that Fedora is bleeding edge and not for the feint
> > of heart
> > I accept that and have no problem tweaking anything. But come on now! I feel
> > like I should just rewrite the mkconfig program.
> > My system is as follows: 160Gb IDE (Windows 7), 120Gb IDE (stuff ext4),
> > 160Gb SATA (swap, f16x64, ubuntu 11.10, slackware 13.37, vector linux 6 kde
> > classic, f17 alpha) 250Gb SATA 4Gb boot and the rest is home
> > I know my setup is not typical and tweaking boot will always happen
> 
> Is it just the (recovery mode entries bothering you?  Add
> 'GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_RECOVERY=true' to /etc/default/grub kill those.
> 
> -T.C.
> 
It's not the recovery mode entry that bothers me, but the fact that for
all of the kernels in my boot parttion gets assigned to F17 or what
every the last distro installed. Maybe the mkconfig program isn't samrt
enought or maybe I should go ahead and write my own.