From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephane Eranian Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 01:08:07 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] efibootmgr-0.3.3-test5 Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Matt, > > Given that you can have load options with the same name (for whatever good > it does), how might people want to see this fixed? > 1) Warn the user, but do it anyway. Probably doesn't help the installer app > that calls efibootmgr. > 2) Warn the user, do it anyway, append text to it like [1]. Not too pretty. > 3) Warn the user, don't do it, need yet another flag to force it. > 4) Make installer app more intelligent, something like: > for b in `efibootmgr | grep "Red Hat Linux" | awk '{print $1}'`; do > efibootmgr -b $b -B > done > > > I prefer 4 myself, but could see adding 1) if desired. > Clearly the installer should do 4) but a warning would be good too. -- -Stephane