New menu entry Ubuntu 16.04

[tisauro]

Hi,

I am trying to create a new menu entry in Ubuntu 16.04 using the sample provided

grub_menuentry { 'new_entry':
   root           => '(hd0,0)',
   kernel         => ':preserve:',
   initrd         => ':preserve:',
   kernel_options => [':preserve:']
 }

however when I apply it to my node I get the error

Debug: Puppet::Type::Grub_menuentry::ProviderGrub2: file grubby does not exist
Debug: Puppet::Type::Grub_menuentry::ProviderGrub: file grub does not exist
Error: Could not find a suitable provider for grub_menuentry

is there anything I missing?

many thanks in advance
Kind regards,
Mauro

[raphink]

The grub_menuentry type requires either grub or grubby commands. It seems recent Ubuntu versions don't have them. @trevor-vaughan do you know what needs to be used instead?

[trevor-vaughan]

@raphink Yep, someone needs to go write a parser for all of GRUB2 that does what grubby does in terms of information retrieval. I don't Ubuntu so, until EL drops grubby, totally not volunteering for this one.

Basically, just run grubby --info DEFAULT (and for individual kernels) and find a way to get all of that info.

[raphink]

Ack. I use Ubuntu but I don't manage grub stuff with Puppet. Ubuntu doesn't have grubby so I can't check the output. Bottom line so far, we'd welcome a PR to fix that in a proper way in Debian-based OSes @tisauro

[trevor-vaughan]

As a quick check to see if there was some reason that grubby wasn't available for Ubuntu, I spun up a 1604 system, snagged the repo from https://github.com/rhboot/grubby, built it and it worked just fine.

Honestly, I'd recommend that someone ask Ubuntu to include it instead of trying to reinvent the wheel.