Feature Suggestion -- Grub should look for arch specific grub.cfg

[Mroczek, Joseph T]

Hello:

Please let me know if this is not the correct place to make this suggestion/request. First time mailing here.

Description: Grub should look in architecture specific directory for grub.cfg. eg /boot/grub/x86_64-efi/grub.cfg Second best would be to look for architecture specific filename eg grub-x86_64-efi.cfg.

Rational: When setting up a network boot server, it is may be desirable to have different grub.cfg files for different architectures. This allows setting different defaults and images. This is already done for module loading, just not for the config file. My preference would be to check for architecture specific file first (root)$prefix/$arch/grub.cfg then fall back to the current path of (root)$prefix/grub.cfg.

Impact: Many architectures cannot share boot files. Eg. X86_64-efi and i386-efi. To deal with this scenario, it seems to require much conditional scripting in grub.cfg or jiggling $prefix and file locations to trick different builds of grub to load from different locations. This is not a big deal when booting from a hard drive since the architecture is known. This becomes a big deal with network booting from a shared location. It seems to me that this would also be useful for USB/CD boot to support more architectures in a single media device.

Thank you for any attention you can pay this matter.

Regards,

Joe M.


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