2009/10/3 Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko <phco...@gmail.com>: > Robert Millan wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 08:04:51PM +0200, j...@hkfree.org wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> I am using Debian GNU/Linux as my primary system. As a loader I am using >>> GRUB. >>> Actually I have upgraded to GRUB2. I don't know, if it was feature of >>> original >>> (legacy) GRUB or it was functionality provided by debian scripts >>> (update-grub), >>> for generating menu.lst. There was feature - howmany. This option specifies >>> number of kernels, that user wants to have in boot menu. Script, that >>> modifies >>> menu.lst, use this variable. I like this feature, because I have usually >>> more >>> kernels, but I want to see only last two versions in GRUB menu. I have >>> created >>> patch, that add support for this to /etc/grub.d/10_linux. I have created >>> this >>> patch against version shipped with Debian (1.97~beta3-1) - I don't know if >>> there are some Debian specific modifications. Also there should be variable >>> GRUB_HOW_MANY propagated from /etc/default/grub (my patch don't do >>> this). >>> Kernel and it's rescue variant is counted as one kernel. >>> >>> I have already reported this bug to Debian BTS: >>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=548600 >>> >> >> Does anyone else think we want an option for this? It seems like "feature >> creep". >> >> > Many kernels encumber view and may make menu difficult to navigate (I > have to scroll through a lot of linux kernels before I get to FreeBSD). > But choosing kernels would involve heuristics which are likely to fail > if e.g. user is in the middle of git bisect > But the core issue is a bad menu organisation. I think we need two-level > menu. It seems Bean is already working on issue but I haven't followed > that thread closely >
I guess it should be possible one way or another once the new menu system is ready. It should be possible to sort the non-linux extra boot options into a separate list and thus make them easier to reach, for example. Thanks Michal _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
