Michal Suchanek wrote: > 2009/10/3 Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko <phco...@gmail.com>: > >> 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 >> >> > > I guess it should be possible one way or another once the new menu > system is ready. > > It should be possible to sort the non-linux extra boot options into a > separate list and thus make them easier to reach, for example. > > I would prefer two level OS/kernel choice. E.g. I first choose that I want linux from hdX,Y and then I choose the exact kernel. Perhaps normal keypress enter in first-level menu would boot most recent kernel and e.g. hitting F6 will offer kernel choice > Thanks > > Michal > > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > >
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