Grub-mkstandalone with custom configuration

Question

Hi everyone,
I am trying to install Arch Linux on a Macbook 8,2 (Intel+Ati Graphics) alongside Os X.
I was able to successfully complete the installation of Arch using that partition scheme:
sda1 hfs+ Basic Apple Efi Partition
sda2 hfs+ Os X
sda3 hfs+ Grub partition
sda4 ext2 /boot
sda5 ext4 /
sda6 ext4 /home
That setup allows me not to install Refind/Refit, and to directly Efi boot on the small Grub partition. To setup the partition I was told to use the command
grub-mkstandalone -o boot.efi -d usr/lib/grub/x86_64-efi -O x86_64-efi -C xz boot/grub/grub.cfg
and then to copy the generated "boot.efi" in the small hfs+ partition.
This method works, but I need to add those parameters to edit the grub boot menu like this:
set gfxpayload=keep
outb 0x728 1
outb 0x710 2
outb 0x740 2
outb 0x750 0
insmod gzio
linux /vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/mapper/vgroup-root cryptdevice=/dev/sda2:vgroup ro quiet radeon.modeset=0 i915.modeset=1 i915.lvds_channel_mode=2 i915.lvds_use_ssc=0 acpi_backlight=vendor libahci.ignore_sss=1
initrd /initramfs-linux.img
How can i do it?
I both attempted to edit the /etc/grub/grub.conf, where i added to the default parameters the one listed up here,
and to edit /etc/grub.d/10_linux , adding this thing in the right place
adding
echo " outb 0x728 1" | sed "s/^/$submenu_indentation/"
echo " outb 0x710 2" | sed "s/^/$submenu_indentation/"
echo " outb 0x740 2" | sed "s/^/$submenu_indentation/"
echo " outb 0x750 0" | sed "s/^/$submenu_indentation/"
echo " insmod gzio" | sed "s/^/$submenu_indentation/"
but both did not work. (That means, booting on grub does not get those things I modified)
Thanks for your help,
Filippo

Answer 1

Thanks for the welcome!
You are right! it is /etc/default/grub.conf . It was a Typo.
uname -a
Linux archbook 3.11.5-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Oct 14 08:31:43 CEST 2013 x86_64 Gnu/Linux
Im following this tutorial http://codylittlewood.com/arch-linux-on … tallation/
With a spice of http://rorygarand.com/blog/2013/6/6/arc … oot-loader
Last edited by PhilipV (2013-10-17 07:16:39)