On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Andrei POPESCU <andreimpope...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Ma, 27 mar 12, 16:45:39, Tom H wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Andrei POPESCU >> <andreimpope...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Jo, 22 mar 12, 17:28:26, Sven Joachim wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Getting grub2 to use a different command-line option for each entry left >>>>> as an exercise for the reader. >>>> >>>> I ended up locally diverting /usr/sbin/update-grub (replacing it with a >>>> symlink to /bin/true) and managing /boot/grub/grub.cfg by hand. >>> >>> I think this is the only feature of grub1 that I missed. >> >> Why can't you do the same with grub2? > > Not implemented. I remember some discussion about it (probably in > upstream BTS, for Debian I can only find #601940), but apparently > nothing came out of it.
Do you mean this? (I don't know enough about u-a to understand why "--force" is needed...) [root@sidbox:~] # update-alternatives --install /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig grub2cfg /bin/true 1 update-alternatives: using /bin/true to provide /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig (grub2cfg) in auto mode. update-alternatives: warning: not replacing /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig with a link. [root@sidbox:~] # update-alternatives --force --install /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig grub2cfg /bin/true 1 update-alternatives: using /bin/true to provide /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig (grub2cfg) in auto mode. [root@sidbox:~] # [I wish that they'd make the changes needed to make the 601940 wish list bug come true. The automagic setup was a Debianism that would probably need a Debian developer working upstream/with upstream to patch and push. A few years ago, grub2's upstream rejected another grub1 automatic Debianism, "howmany".] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=sxe8eh3dvaouvjrum3cruok1ess7t-nwd6whf80cnu...@mail.gmail.com
