From: "Humphrey van Polanen Petel"
mailto:hp...@optusnet.com.au>>
Date: Sunday, 24 January 2021 at 12:27:20
To: "John Paul Adrian Glaubitz"
mailto:glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de>>
Cc: "The development of GNU GRUB"
mailto:grub-devel@gnu.org>>
Subject: Re: need hostname on menu
Okay, I get it.
On 1/24/21 12:26 PM, Humphrey van Polanen Petel wrote:
> Okay, I get it.
>
> I defer to your decision.
I did not make any decisions as I'm not in charge of GRUB, I'm just a
contributing developer.
I merely stated my opinion and pointed out some problems with your
suggestion.
Adrian
--
.''`.
Okay, I get it.
I defer to your decision.
Humphrey
We are but sheep and here to be fleeced
On 24/1/21 8:03 pm, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hello!
On 1/24/21 4:32 AM, Humphrey van Polanen Petel wrote:
Whether it is a trivial problem or not I am not qualified to comment on, but it
nevert
Sorry for the faulty paste, please keep only the part quoted below:
Le 24/01/2021 à 10:28, Didier Spaier a écrit :
> Hi,> > Le 24/01/2021 à 01:52, Humphrey van Polanen Petel a
écrit :>> However, it seems to me that it would be a lot more useful to
add a >> parameter allowing the user to display
Hi,
Le 24/01/2021 à 01:52, Humphrey van Polanen Petel a écrit :
However, it seems to me that it would be a lot more useful to add a
parameter allowing the user to display the name of the install from
/etc/hostname.
I won't repeat what grub developers said but in addition:
1) Other users coul
Hello!
On 1/24/21 4:32 AM, Humphrey van Polanen Petel wrote:
> Whether it is a trivial problem or not I am not qualified to comment on, but
> it
> nevertheless seems to me that being able to identify at boot a systemby the
> name
> by which it is know is of obvious benefit simply because mnemoni
No, that would still be not enough:
Imagine installing centOS 3 times, one with gnome-desktop, one with
kde-desktop, and one with yet another variant, but all using the same
OS-release.
Your suggestion would still yield three identical labels...
From: "Humphrey van Polanen Petel"
mailto:hp...@
