David Wright composed on 2023-12-20 00:00 (UTC-0600):
> In case it's not clear, "generically symlinked" means that
> /vmlinuz is a symlink pointing to the most recent linux-image.
> (Similarly for initrd.) I added the following to
> /etc/grub.d/07_custom:
> menuentry 'My bullseye' $menuentry_id_option 'custom' {
> load_video
> set gfxpayload=keep
> insmod gzio
> insmod part_gpt
> insmod ext2
> search --no-floppy --set=root --label noah03
> echo 'Load /vmlinuz …'
> linux /vmlinuz root=LABEL=noah03 ro systemd.show_status=true quiet
> echo 'Load initial ramdisk /initrd.img …'
> initrd /initrd.img
> }
A bit less is needed here in custom.cfg:
menuentry "Debian 13 Trixie defkernel 3 on P10" {
load_video
set gfxpayload=keep
search --no-floppy --set=root --hint-baremetal=ahci0,gpt10 --label
zd8p10deb13
linux /vmlinuz root=LABEL=zd8p10deb13 noresume consoleblank=0
preempt=full mitigations=off
initrd /initrd.img
}
menuentry "Slackware 15.0 GUI on P25"{
load_video
set gfxpayload=keep
search --no-floppy --set=root --hint-efi=hd0,gpt25 --label zd8p25slack
linux /boot/vmlinuz rw root=LABEL=zd8p25slack noresume consoleblank=0
mitigations=off
initrd /boot/initrd.gz
}
# lsblk -f | egrep 'fat|slack|deb13'
├─sda1 vfat FAT32 ZD8P01ESP 20A0-2A08
├─sda10 ext4 1.0 zd8p10deb13 e37c3e3c...
├─sda25 ext4 1.0 zd8p25slack 6664eb9b...
# grep RETT /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="openSUSE Tumbleweed"
# rpmqa grub2-2.1
grub2-2.12~rc1-12.1.x86_64
#
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