On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 09:03:53PM +0000, Martin Orr wrote: > I would like to be able to choose between alternative Linux command > lines in my GRUB menu (specifically, I want a "selinux=0" option, but I > can imagine that people might want other things). I could add an extra > script to /etc/grub.d to do this, but then I have to copy the logic in > 10_linux to detect what kernel versions are available, and they do not > appear in the correct place in the menu. It would be simpler if you > could specify variant command lines in /etc/default/grub and have them > handled automatically in 10_linux. > > The attached patch allows (for example) the following configuration in > /etc/default/grub: > GRUB_LINUX_VARIANTS="noselinux kms" > > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_noselinux="selinux=0" > GRUB_LABEL_LINUX_noselinux="SELinux disabled" > > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_kms="i915.modesetting=1" > GRUB_LABEL_LINUX_kms="KMS enabled" > > This patch is only intended as a demonstration: various details of the > implementation still need to be sorted out, such as > internationalization. Suggestions of wildly different > approaches/configuration interfaces are welcome.
I think this is growing severely overengineered. It is already more complex than it needs to be. The scripts in /etc/grub.d *are* config files. There's no reason you can't edit them to suit your needs. -- Robert Millan "Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Gandhi _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
