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bug #27282: Please add the possibility to generate "flavour boot entries"

Submitter:  Marc Haber <zugschlus>
Submitted:  Wed 19 Aug 2009 02:30:14 PM UTC
Votes: 101
 
Category:  Configuration Severity:  Major
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Feature Request
Status:  Wont Fix Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  None Originator Name:  Marc Haber
Open/Closed:  Closed Release:  Bazaar - trunk
Release:  Reproducibility:  None
Planned Release:  None

Mon 23 Aug 2010 05:28:55 PM UTC, comment #2: 

I have attached a version of the patches in the mentioned bug log as a merge directive against current trunk. Please accept the patches.

(file #21283)

 Felipe Sateler <fsateler>
Fri 21 May 2010 09:03:25 PM UTC, comment #1: 

/etc/grub.d/* are configuration files too. They can be changed by
user as he sees fit. /etc/default/grub lists only the most common
and useful options. Everything else would only encumber it. If
there is enough demand for your feature this point of view may
change though

 Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder>
Group administrator
Wed 19 Aug 2009 02:30:14 PM UTC, original submission:  

Hi,

Debian's grub 0.9 packages allowed the generation of more than two boot entries per Linux kernel version installed. This allowed people to have different entries for production use, single user mode, serial console or different run levels.

grub 2 seems to be hardcoded to generate the production use entry and a single user mode entry (which can be optionally disabled in later versions).

Please consider adding the possibility to define one's own alternative entries. For example, I haven't been booting into single user mode once in ten years, but I like to have a possibility to boot to serial console, or to run level 3 from an unedited grub.cfg.

There is also a bug report in the Debian BTS,
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=488840
and a discussion on grub-devel, beginninghttp://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2008-07/msg00011.html

I am filing this bug for completeness.

Savannah bug 24368, which is referred in some Debian bug log, doesn't solve this, this bug was about the option to disable the single user mode entry.

Greetings
Marc


Marc Haber <zugschlus>

 

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file #21283:  alternatives.md added by fsateler (8KiB - application/x-genesis-rom - merge directive for the patch)

 

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    2010-09-22 fsateler Carbon-Copy- Added fsateler
    2010-08-23 fsateler Attached File- Added alternatives.md, #21283
    2010-05-21 phcoder StatusNone Wont Fix
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    2009-08-19 terrible Carbon-Copy- Added terrible

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