On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 04:18:21PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote: > Tue, 18 Oct 2022 06:57:36 -0700 Denton Liu <liu.den...@gmail.com>: > > > If I'm understanding correctly, what you're proposing is a mechanism for > > setting the default entry. If I'm not mistaken, this seems like an > > orthogonal discussion to me. My patch proposes a method of setting the > > top-level menu entry while this method only sets the default entry, > > which may be hidden behind a submenu. > > I think this can be done already today. At least YaST offers a way to select > a specific item in a submenu and pass it to grub-set-default. This leads to > an entry like this in grubenv: > > saved_entry=Advanced options for SLE15SP4 (with Xen hypervisor)>Xen > hypervisor, version > 4.17.20220823T122205.399bcbf2-xen_unstable.150400.370>SLE15SP4, with Xen > 4.17.20220823T122205.399bcbf2-xen_unstable.150400.370 and Linux > 5.14.21-150400.24.21-default > > This entry will be booted as long as both this specific Xen version and this > specific kernel version is found. There is a slim chance a SUSE specific > patch exists to enable this functionality.
Just to clarify. There is no specific patch, this is common function in grub. Thanks, Michael > > Maybe the patch description lacks a specific example how the proposed change > is supposed to be used in your environment. > > Olaf > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > grub-de...@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
