Improving manual linux installation guide

[FrosT2k5]

• Specify grub.d file to paste menuentry to, also specify to update-grub
• Making data.img size changeable

[saikat0511]

sudo update-grub doesn't work on all distros and should be replaced with sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

[FrosT2k5]

sudo update-grub doesn't work on all distros and should be replaced with sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Can u tell which distros it doesn't work in? I used debian based distros and it works fine in that. And not sure if it'll mess something up with regular update-grub command

[Snivine]

sudo update-grub doesn't work on all distros and should be replaced with sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Can u tell which distros it doesn't work in? I used debian based distros and it works fine in that. And not sure if it'll mess something up with regular update-grub command

update-grub is a debian exclusive command

literally any other distro that is not debian needs to use sudo grub-mkconfig -o boot/grub/grub.cfg

[Snivine]

I use Endeavour (arch) and It does not work on it

[saikat0511]

sudo update-grub doesn't work on all distros and should be replaced with sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Can u tell which distros it doesn't work in? I used debian based distros and it works fine in that. And not sure if it'll mess something up with regular update-grub command

All non-debian distros basically. update-grub is just a wrapper for grub-mkconfig -o boot/grub/grub.cfg to make it easier to use. Check it for yourself, cat $(which update-grub)

[FrosT2k5]

I replaced it, thanks for heads up. Let me know if you have anything else to change in this pr

[Quackdoc]

you should add something along the lines of, "As an example for grub..." and "on other bootloaders you will need to adapt it to your needs"

[FrosT2k5]

you should add something along the lines of, "As an example for grub..." and "on other bootloaders you will need to adapt it to your needs"

I don't think it's needed
Most of the linux distros use grub as default and people who install distros without grub are experienced enough to configure things for their distros. I think if we add this it'll just create confusion for the newbies about figuring out which bootloader they use

[Quackdoc]

a few distros are migrating away from grub, IE. popos. it won't add any more confusion or headache then trying to add a menu entry manually