Partial localization of Grub2

[Schoelje]

I wanted to localize Grub2 manually and did the following:

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  dpkg-reconfigure locales

  and selected nl_NL.UTF-8
• I then checked these files for correctness:
  /etc/default/locale
  /etc/locale.gen
• I copied all grub.mo files with:

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          for F in $(find /usr/share/locale -name "grub.mo"); do 
              MO="/boot/grub/locale/$(echo $F | cut -d'/' -f 5).mo"
              if [ ! -e $MO ]; then
                  cp -v $F $MO
              fi
          done

• I checked the .mo files in /boot/grub/locale
• I added this to /etc/default/grub

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  LANG=nl_NL
  LANGUAGE=nl_NL

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  sudo update-grub

I rebooted and saw that grub was only partially translated: the menu at the bottom was translated, however the kernel menu items were still in English.

It looks like /etc/grub.d/10_linux is missing something or did I miss something?

[Schoelje]

I think I found the solution:

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GRUB_LANG=nl_NL

instead of

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LANG=nl_NL

in /etc/default/grub

[Schoelje]

No, that wasn't it.

It happened when installing a new system from a live session. A chroot environment contains the newly installed system where things are configured according to the user's settings.

Running

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chroot /chrootdir update-grub

would not set the default language set in the chroot environment in grub.cfg. That's because LANG is passed from the host to the chroot environment which is en_US thus writing lang = en_US in grub.cfg.

By running

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LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8 chroot /chrootdir update-grub

LANG is set for only this chroot command and lang = nl_NL is written to grub.cfg.

There is no need to edit /etc/default/grub