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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

does anyone know how to actually reorganze a grub menu? every time I try to Google it I only get results for some old software that hasnt been updated in ~~over a decade~~ 8 years. its a huge pain to have to select the distro I want every time just because its not first

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The old GRUB was easy, just a text file... I think I've done it once in the new one but it's way too long since then

I bet either the Gentoo or Arch (or probably both) wiki has enough details on how to manage GRUB to do that

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think arch install defaults to systemd-boot these days. But, I realise that doesn't negate anything you said... So. Hope you're having a nice day.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Just checked and they do have it, I think this is the section they need if they want to go that route

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GRUB#Custom_grub.cfg

[โ€“] 0x4E4F 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Grub Customizer. Just don't change it too much (names of menu entries for example) cuz most package managers won't recognize that that menu entry is actually a menu entry for it's own install and won't replace it with a new one when doing a kernel update. So, basically, one of two things will happen. You will either be left with 2 menu entries (one for the new kernel and one for the old one, with the old one being the default) or two, you'll still be booting the old kernel, even though you have the new one installed (no changes to grub whatsoever). Just rearanging the menu entries is fine though, most package managers won't mangle that and will recognize the menu entry as part of the OS they're updating and replace that one with a new one.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

is there a fork of grub customizer somewhere thats being maintained? that was the software I was talking about in my original comment* and unless im misreading the GitHub page for the project, the last update was 8 years ago.

*I mispoke when I said it was over 10 years out of date, it was updated in 2016.

[โ€“] 0x4E4F 3 points 7 months ago

https://launchpad.net/grub-customizer/

I think that GH repo is just for reference... or maybe they (whoever made it) stopped syncing it to the main repo, IDK. 5.2.4 is the latest version and it's released late 2023, so yeah, it's still under active development.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Yast on openSUSE does this and is maintained.