Hi Otavio, thanks for your recent work on grub and update-grub. Please consider applying the following patch which fixes bug #266101.
Thanks! Georg -- Georg Wittenburg http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/~wittenbu/
--- update-grub.orig 2005-11-24 09:49:19.000000000 +0100 +++ update-grub 2005-11-24 09:49:24.000000000 +0100 @@ -294,6 +294,10 @@ # should grub lock the alternative boot options in the menu lockalternative="false" +# additional options to use with the default boot option, but not with the +# alternatives + defoptions="" + # options to use with the alternative boot options altoptions="(recovery mode) single" @@ -624,6 +628,9 @@ # Extract the lockalternative value lockalternative=$(GetMenuOpt "lockalternative" "$lockalternative") +# Extract the additional default options +defoptions=$(GetMenuOpt "defoptions" "$defoptions") + # Extract the howmany value howmany=$(GetMenuOpt "howmany" "$howmany") @@ -668,6 +675,12 @@ echo "# lockalternative=$lockalternative" >> $buffer echo >> $buffer +echo "## additional options to use with the default boot option, but not with the" >> $buffer +echo "## alternatives" >> $buffer +echo "## e.g. defoptions=vga=791 resume=/dev/hda5" >> $buffer +echo "# defoptions=$defoptions" >> $buffer +echo >> $buffer + echo "## altoption boot targets option" >> $buffer echo "## multiple altoptions lines are allowed" >> $buffer echo "## e.g. altoptions=(extra menu suffix) extra boot options" >> $buffer @@ -793,7 +806,7 @@ currentOpt=$(get_kernel_opt $kernelVersion) write_kernel_entry "$kernelVersion" "" "" "$grub_root_device" "$kernel" \ - "$currentOpt" "" "$initrd" "true" + "$currentOpt $defoptions" "" "$initrd" "true" # insert the alternative boot options if test ! x"$alternative" = x"false" ; then
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