On 10/19/07, Anil Gulecha <anil.verve at gmail.com> wrote: > On 10/19/07, Glenn Lagasse <glenn.lagasse at sun.com> wrote: > > Hey Sanjay, > > > > * Sanjay Nadkarni (Sanjay.Nadkarni at sun.com) wrote: > > > > > > One of the things I am trying to figure out the number of options a user > > > should have to boot OpenSolaris. This of course directly translates to > > > the number of grub entries. Currently, the entry will boot the > > > system in the best available mode, i.e if your hardware supports ISA64 > > > then opensolaris will boot into a 64 bit mode. However, should should > > > there be an explicit entry for booting into 32 bit mode ? (For October > > > prototype there is no safe mode boot. ) Should there be a no-acpi based > > > boot ? > > > > > > Your thoughts are welcome. > > > > I think we probably want to keep things simple. Too many choices are > > likely to confuse. But a few choices might not be a bad idea. I don't > > know that we need an explicit 32 bit entry. Have we ever seen an issue > > where the auto-detection failed? A non-acpi entry might be a good idea > > given the horrible state of acpi support on most consumer grade hardware > > we've seen. > > > Hi, > > Regarding the many options view, we can keep them all and still hide > them from the user. I know that fedora core uses a grub feature that > does not display the list but allows for a default selection. I found > a screenshot here > (http://www.homelandstupidity.us/images/FC3/FC3-037.png). I haven't > tried the later versions of fedora, so dont know if they do it > similarly too, and if the grub stuff went upstream. >
To addon: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tours/FedoraCore6/012_Grub_Bootloader ~Anil
