Robert Millan wrote: > On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 08:04:51PM +0200, j...@hkfree.org wrote: > >> Hello, >> I am using Debian GNU/Linux as my primary system. As a loader I am using >> GRUB. >> Actually I have upgraded to GRUB2. I don't know, if it was feature of >> original >> (legacy) GRUB or it was functionality provided by debian scripts >> (update-grub), >> for generating menu.lst. There was feature - howmany. This option specifies >> number of kernels, that user wants to have in boot menu. Script, that >> modifies >> menu.lst, use this variable. I like this feature, because I have usually more >> kernels, but I want to see only last two versions in GRUB menu. I have >> created >> patch, that add support for this to /etc/grub.d/10_linux. I have created this >> patch against version shipped with Debian (1.97~beta3-1) - I don't know if >> there are some Debian specific modifications. Also there should be variable >> GRUB_HOW_MANY propagated from /etc/default/grub (my patch don't do >> this). >> Kernel and it's rescue variant is counted as one kernel. >> >> I have already reported this bug to Debian BTS: >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=548600 >> > > Does anyone else think we want an option for this? It seems like "feature > creep". > > Many kernels encumber view and may make menu difficult to navigate (I have to scroll through a lot of linux kernels before I get to FreeBSD). But choosing kernels would involve heuristics which are likely to fail if e.g. user is in the middle of git bisect But the core issue is a bad menu organisation. I think we need two-level menu. It seems Bean is already working on issue but I haven't followed that thread closely
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