Option "profile"

Option "profile"

[Teresa e Junior]

Hello, Grub developers!

I had unsubscribed from these mailing lists, and possibly one has
already asked this question, but I googled and, the only thing I found
so far, was a few blogs saying the same thing (one copied from another).

So here it goes: is the command-line option "profile" some patch
available only for Ubuntu (nothing I could find looking at the Ubuntu
Changelog)? Or do I need a newer version of Grub?

I tried this with the version from Debian Sid, and I see no complaints,
but nothing happens either.

Best regards!
Teresa e Junior

Re: Option "profile"

[Colin Watson]

On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 02:04:43AM -0200, Teresa e Junior wrote:
> So here it goes: is the command-line option "profile" some patch
> available only for Ubuntu (nothing I could find looking at the Ubuntu
> Changelog)? Or do I need a newer version of Grub?

Command-line options may be set in the GRUB configuration file, but
(with a few very narrow exceptions) GRUB does not interpret them and has
no idea what they mean.  They are interpreted either by the kernel, by
the distribution's initramfs scripts, or by the distribution's init
scripts.  It is not usually correct to ask about them on this mailing
list.

In Ubuntu, the 'profile' option is interpreted by
/etc/init/bootchart.conf.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@ubuntu.com]