24.2 Invoking grub-mkconfig

The program grub-mkconfig generates a configuration file for GRUB (see Simple configuration).

grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

grub-mkconfig accepts the following options:

--help

Print a summary of the command-line options and exit.

--version

Print the version number of GRUB and exit.

-o file

--output=file

Send the generated configuration file to file. The default is to send it to standard output.