On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Andrei POPESCU <andreimpope...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mi, 28 mar 12, 11:08:13, Tom H wrote: >> 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? > > No, I was talking about > >> >>>>> Getting grub2 to use a different command-line option for each entry >> >>>>> left >> >>>>> as an exercise for the reader. OK, thanks. The other link didn't make sense. >> (I don't know enough about u-a to understand why >> "--force" is needed...) > > It's because you're using the wrong tool for this job ;) LOL > Alternatives are used when more files can provide the same functionality > (e.g you can choose if the symlink /usr/bin/editor points to > /usr/bin/nano or /usr/bin/vim). The output of 'ls -l /etc/alternatives' > might be interesting for you. > > By "locally diverting" Sven meant using dpkg-divert(8) which is the > correct tool for what he ended up doing. OK, thanks. -- 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=swzjwfx6umxa93rcb8d3d33h3sbu4q29ween-mf-qi...@mail.gmail.com
