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Reverse order for old grub.cfg entries

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From: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>
To: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Cc: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant <at> debian.org>, Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe <at> gmail.com>, 31159 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#31159: Reverse order for old grub.cfg entries
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 15:23:19 -0400

Hi Ludovic,

ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> I agree with you.  As long as the entry labels clearly show which one is
> the most recent, that sounds good.
>
> However!  On headless machines, we’d rather make sure users know about
> this change.  On our Libreboot “bayfront” server, GRUB for some reason
> fails to display anything, and on several occasions we’ve had to blindly
> select an older generation.  Hopefully this is an unusual situation ;-),
> but it could happen on ARM boards as well.

Do you have an idea of how to make sure that users know about it?

      Mark

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