Some minor improvement ideas for MX

[Richard]

1. .... But the really nice thing about the Manjaro boot loader is that it remembers what you last booted and offers that as the default rather than always reverting to the first option. I know that non-newbies will figure out that they can fix things with the (thoughtfully included) Grub Customiser but I would suggest that "previous booted entry" should be pre-set when installing MX and that the Windows entry got right immediately.

In fstab, need to make the following changes as root for GRUB_DEFAULT & GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT:

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GRUB_DEFAULT=saved
# GRUB_DEFAULT="MX GNU/Linux, with Linux 4.1-7.dmz.1-686-pae (sda2)"
. . . 
#GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT="false"
GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT="true"

and then it will select the last booted OS,
and boot after the timeout, unless you change it manually before the timeout.

[richb]

Have you looked at grub-customizer?

[Richard]

No, hadn't ever noticed that section.
Kinda neat.

In Environment Setup, mine says I have no "/boot/grub/device.map"?
Google says it's not setup up by Grub2.
Any thoughts?

[richb]

Are you using grub as installed by MX-14 or MX-15?

[asqwerth]

...

... But the really nice thing about the Manjaro boot loader is that it remembers what you last booted and offers that as the default rather than always reverting to the first option. I know that non-newbies will figure out that they can fix things with the (thoughtfully included) Grub Customiser but I would suggest that "previous booted entry" should be pre-set when installing MX and that the Windows entry got right immediately....

I'm one of those who would prefer that "previous booted entry" not be pre-set as default behaviour for grub menu.

Manjaro's bootloader controls my personal laptop and I'm fine with that behaviour there.

However, my desktop PC is used by family members and guests as well. Because it holds lots of distros, I would want it to always default to the first option, which is the newbie-friendly *Mint. For instance, I wouldn't want them to boot up, go get a coffee, and return to find themselves in an openbox distro because that was what I last used. Even Gnome 3 was initially confusing to my sister - who's very comfortable with tech and computers - when she visited recently.

With grub-customizer, users do have the option to change the default behaviour.



* I'm not saying MX is not newbie-friendly, but Mint controls grub on my desktop and MX14 and MX15 are hidden within a mass of grub and distro entries.

[Jerry3904]

First-on-the-list does seem to me the more logical default setting.

[DBeckett]

 
I prefer GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT="true". While my daily driver is at the top of the list, I may be playing with another distro. After major changes, like a kernel upgrade for instance, I like to reboot just to be sure everything's okay. I can walk away while it's rebooting and return to find it where I left it.

[asqwerth]

 
I prefer GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT="true". While my daily driver is at the top of the list, I may be playing with another distro. After major changes, like a kernel upgrade for instance, I like to reboot just to be sure everything's okay. I can walk away while it's rebooting and return to find it where I left it.

Are you using chainloading entries in the main grub menu for your other distros?

Because for me, when another distro has a kernel upgrade, I have to reboot back to the distro that controls grub (ie, the first in the list) in order to update-grub.

[Richard]

Are you using grub as installed by MX-14 or MX-15?

MX-15 Boot Repair.

[richb]

Curious. I do have an entry in the environment map.