bugGNU GRUB - Bugs: bug #567, Print loaded Linux kernel version

 
 

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bug #567: Print loaded Linux kernel version

Submitted by:  Henrik Nordstrom <hno>
Submitted on:  Sun 09 Jun 2002 03:35:23 PM UTC  
 
Category: User InterfaceSeverity: Major
Priority: 5 - NormalItem Group: Feature Request
Status: NonePrivacy: Public
Assigned to: NoneOriginator Name: 
Open/Closed: ClosedRelease: CVS
Release: NoneReproducibility: None
Planned Release: None

Sat 15 Dec 2007 11:27:31 AM UTC, comment #5:

We've moved to GRUB 2 as a development platform. Please can you check if this bug still applies there, and if it does, reopen it?

Thanks

Robert Millan <robertmh>
Project Administrator
Fri 06 Feb 2004 11:31:05 PM UTC, comment #4:

I still use it and find it very useful, but this might be because our kernels are not named with versions.

Henrik Nordstrom <hno>
Fri 22 Nov 2002 08:19:24 PM UTC, comment #3:

I like the patch, because any information from within a boot loader is interesting and could be useful. If a system is in a critical stage (does not boot anymore), ANY information is probably welcome.

Apart from that, why not? Do we have a memory or disk limit?

Dr. Tilmann Bubeck <bubeck>
Fri 13 Sep 2002 05:04:56 AM UTC, comment #2:

I don't see why it is so useful, because I always name
kernel images with version numbers. Also, I feel it too
verbose.

Of course, that's my subjectivity. So I don't object,
if many people agree with you.

Thanks,
Okuji

Yoshinori K. Okuji <okuji>
Project Administrator
Wed 11 Sep 2002 03:49:39 PM UTC, comment #1:

No comments on this one? Still using it and find it quite helpful when dealing with different kernel versions etc..

Henrik Nordstrom <hno>
Sun 09 Jun 2002 03:35:23 PM UTC, original submission:

It would be nice if the loaded Linux kernel version was printed in the kernel blurb.

Patch suggestion attached.

grub> kernel /vmlinuz
[Linux-bzImage 2.4.18-3 (bhcompile@daffy.perf.redhat.com) #1 Thu Apr 18 07:3
7:53 EDT 2002, setup=0x1400, size=0xfa203]

The patch also moves the printout of the kernel blurb before the zImage validation, allowing one to see what it was that did not fit..

Henrik Nordstrom <hno>

 

Attached Files
file #161:  grub-linux-version.patch added by hno (2KiB - application/octet-stream - patch to print loaded Linux kernel version (updated to apply to current CVS))
file #27:  grub_linux_version.patch added by hno (2KiB - text/x-diff - patch to print loaded Linux kernel version)

 

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