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Re: [PATCH] Allow appending kernel options directly from the main menu
From: |
Neal H. Walfield |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] Allow appending kernel options directly from the main menu |
Date: |
08 Oct 2002 10:10:17 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.2 |
> > The following patch lets users to directly edit the kernel command line
> > by pressing 'a' at the grub menu. This makes it significantly easier
> > for users to do things such as boot in single user mode or pass kernel
> > options for debugging.
>
> Honestly, I'm not very fascinated with this kind of patch. Because it
> is a solution only for Linux.
>
> For example, when you boot a Multiboot-compliant OS, you can also
> specify a command-line argument to each modules. Then, there is no
> reason why you specialize the command "kernel".
>
> So I prefer a more generic solution. Isn't it possible to assign any
> arbitrary shortcut key to any arbitrary menu entry? I might be just
> dreaming, though.
How about `a' followed by a number (or vica versa--I think that the
latter would be better) which would indicate what line to append to?