Re: Valid grub.conf locations

[Andrei Borzenkov]

On 21.06.2023 12:08, Ulrich Sibiller wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 2:18 PM Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com> wrote:
> > RH grub unconditionally loads grub.cfg from $cmdpath (which they renamed
> > to fw_path) without any way to override this behavior. I hesitate to
> > call this improvement.
>
> Well, I cannot judge here. From my POV it looks reasonable to do so
> because you can then use the same efi file regardless of the boot
> method. The override should be added, though. YMMV.

You already can use the same EFI file regardless of the boot method. 
SUSE does it without any hacks.

> > > (This brings up one question which somebody might know the answer: the
> > > Centos7 version of grub has 486 patches. I am wondering why these
> > > patches never made it to upstream. Is there simply lack of manpower?
> > > Have these patches never reached upstream? Have they been rejected?)
>
> Do you know anything about this?

It is quite possible that most of these patches are actually upstream 
patches.