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Adding new entries to Grub with alternate kernel parameters

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I installed Grub in the normal way and now I have entries in the Grub menu for linux, linux-lts, and the fallback versions of them.

I want to add more entries to this. For example, I want to add linux-lts nomodeset that is the same as linux-lts but without nvidia-drm.modeset=1.

Do I have to manually edit /boot/grub/grub.cfg for this? Or is there a more user friendly way? The syntax of grub.cfg is bad, and I fear my manual changes will get overwritten by grub-mkconfig.

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posted 12 days ago
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Seeing grub alone modifying grub.conf would be the only option. For more handy options it would be ne... (2 comments)
Seeing grub alone modifying grub.conf would be the only option. For more handy options it would be ne...
GeraldS‭ wrote 12 days ago
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Seeing grub alone modifying grub.conf would be the only option. For more handy options it would be necessary to know which distribution you are using.

matthewsnyder‭ wrote 11 days ago · edited 11 days ago
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I'm on Arch Linux. I guess I mentioned two concerns: 1) Grub will erase my manual grub.conf changes 2) The syntax of grub.conf is bad. I guess I'm actually more concerned about 2, while 1 is a minor problem. When I check my /boot/grub/grub.cfg, one of my entries is ~10 lines and looks very complex. It doesn't look like it would be fun to maintain code like that by hand. It looks like grub-mkconfig generates it from some kind of template, and what I'd really like to know is how to change that template.