From: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Support for howmany option in grub2
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 22:53:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091002205346.GB19103@thorin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090927180451.GA23688@titan>
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 08:04:51PM +0200, jezz@hkfree.org wrote:
> Hello,
> I am using Debian GNU/Linux as my primary system. As a loader I am using GRUB.
> Actually I have upgraded to GRUB2. I don't know, if it was feature of original
> (legacy) GRUB or it was functionality provided by debian scripts (update-grub),
> for generating menu.lst. There was feature - howmany. This option specifies
> number of kernels, that user wants to have in boot menu. Script, that modifies
> menu.lst, use this variable. I like this feature, because I have usually more
> kernels, but I want to see only last two versions in GRUB menu. I have created
> patch, that add support for this to /etc/grub.d/10_linux. I have created this
> patch against version shipped with Debian (1.97~beta3-1) - I don't know if
> there are some Debian specific modifications. Also there should be variable
> GRUB_HOW_MANY propagated from /etc/default/grub (my patch don't do
> this).
> Kernel and it's rescue variant is counted as one kernel.
>
> I have already reported this bug to Debian BTS:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=548600
Does anyone else think we want an option for this? It seems like "feature
creep".
--
Robert Millan
The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-02 20:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-27 18:04 Support for howmany option in grub2 jezz
2009-10-02 20:53 ` Robert Millan [this message]
2009-10-02 21:45 ` richardvoigt
2009-10-03 10:38 ` jezz
2009-10-02 22:00 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-10-02 23:01 ` Michal Suchanek
2009-10-03 12:49 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-10-03 15:21 ` Michal Suchanek
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