Anil Gulecha 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. >
I'd guess that's done just by using the hiddenmenu command. http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#hiddenmenu > We could default to the normal startup in indiana this way in say 3 > seconds. All the other options could be viewed by canceling the > default start and viewing the other options (acpi/ 32 bit/ ..) > That would be decent, I think. Dave > Regards > Anil > _______________________________________________ > caiman-discuss mailing list > caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss
