On Sunday 13 April 2008 16:17:39 Felipe Sateler wrote: > On Wednesday 19 March 2008 23:10:58 Robert Millan wrote: > > Hi! > > > > On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 02:36:37PM -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote: > > > Package: grub-pc > > > Version: 1.96+20080228-1 > > > Followup-For: Bug #470398 > > > > > > The attached patch provides a possible implementation for an altoptions > > > mechanism. > > > > Thanks for your effort. Please, can you send this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ? > > Sorry for the delay, Gmail's spam filter ate this message :(. I'm sending > this now.
I have tried but the list keeps rejecting my mails. Attached are a patch to add the options, and a second one to automatically export those variables. -- Felipe Sateler
--- 10_linux.orig 2008-03-07 13:19:07.000000000 -0300
+++ /etc/grub.d/10_linux 2008-03-07 13:28:57.000000000 -0300
@@ -128,6 +128,24 @@
cat << EOF
}
EOF
+ for alternative in $GRUB_ALTERNATIVES ; do
+ var_name=`echo GRUB_ALTERNATIVE_${alternative}_OPTS`
+ alt_options=`eval "echo \\$$var_name"`
+ var_name=`echo GRUB_ALTERNATIVE_${alternative}_NAME`
+ alt_name=`eval "echo \\$$var_name"`
+ cat << EOF
+menuentry "${OS}, linux ${version} (${alt_name})" {
+ linux ${grub_dirname}/${basename} root=${GRUB_DEVICE} ro ${GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX} ${alt_options}
+EOF
+ if test -n "${initrd}" ; then
+ cat << EOF
+ initrd ${grub_dirname}/${initrd}
+EOF
+ fi
+ cat << EOF
+}
+EOF
+ done
list=`echo $list | tr ' ' '\n' | grep -vx $linux | tr '\n' ' '`
done
--- update-grub.orig 2008-04-13 16:27:58.000000000 -0400
+++ update-grub 2008-04-13 16:29:43.000000000 -0400
@@ -118,6 +118,13 @@
if test -f ${sysconfdir}/default/grub ; then
. ${sysconfdir}/default/grub
+ if [ ! -z "$GRUB_ALTERNATIVES" ] ; then
+ export GRUB_ALTERNATIVES
+ for altoption in $GRUB_ALTERNATIVES ; do
+ export GRUB_ALTERNATIVE_${altoption}_OPTS
+ export GRUB_ALTERNATIVE_${altoption}_NAME
+ done
+ fi
fi
# if ${GRUB_TERMINAL} is set, check it has a sane value. if undefined,
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