/etc/default/grub initialization?; more about RC5 (with KDE)

[Clyde E. Kunkel]

On 11/09/2013 12:29 AM, Felix Miata wrote:
> I installed 20betaRC5 the night it was announced, without installing
> bootloader, since stealing my MBR is not acceptable. After a bunch of
> boots and general housekeeping and testing and finding os-prober,
> grubby, grub2-tools and grub2 installed, I proceeded to try to setup
> Grub2 on /. grub2-install --force /dev/sda8 reported no errors.
> Chainloading from the primary bootloader succeeds in reaching only a
> grub> prompt, as expected.
>
> Next I wanted to do grub2-mkconfig, but there was no /etc/default/grub.
> Shouldn't some already installed package (grub2-tools or os-prober?)
> have already created one, if not usable, a skeleton of some kind? Is it
> normal in multiboot installations to wind up with an /etc/default/grub
> with no more than GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=true in it?
>

FWIW I keep a generic copy of /etc/default/grub around for just this 
reason and copy it to /etc/default before running grub2-mkconfig. 
Alternatively you can create a one liner default by echoing 
GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=true to it.

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Regards,
OldFart