On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 10:09:41PM +0400, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > Do you suggest to create extra menu entries for every possible > combination of kernel parameters?
Yes. It's not grub's job to know everything about a linux kernel, or bsd kernel or whatever else you might want to pass. Runlevels is a user space thing too, and not even a kernel thing, so even more reason grub knows nothing about it. > Sometimes we may need to change or augment what is in the config during > boot as one off action. Without creating configuration file. Which you can still do. > Let's be fair. > > Editing grub2 menu entry is far more complicated than even editing plain > grub legacy menu entry. And most users have never seen even that - they > know gfxmenu that has input field for extra kernel parameters. So for > 99% of *users* booting into single user was a matter of pressing "1 > ENTER". Most of them are not even aware that menu entries can be edited > (because for them gfxmenu *was* grub). Not really. Editing in grub2 is not that different from grub 0.97 (although it is slightly different). I have never used gfxmenu, so no idea what it looks like. > For them doing anything in grub2 (even as much as forcing system into > single user) is shocking experience. I think you are the one that is being entirely unfair. Debian auto generates a grub.cfg just fine with a rescue option for each kernel detected which does single user mode. It does other options too if you ask it to. Pretty darn simple to use. -- Len Sorensen _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
