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Re: need hostname on menu


From: Humphrey van Polanen Petel
Subject: Re: need hostname on menu
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2021 14:32:39 +1100
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Hi,

Whether it is a trivial problem or not I am not qualified to comment on, but it nevertheless seems to me that being able to identify at boot a system by the name by which it is know is of obvious benefit simply because mnemonics are most easily remembered.

And if you wish to call this a "rather exotic problem" then I would like to point out that it is not up to the developers, but to the users to determine how they use their system. 

Humphrey

We are but sheep and here to be fleeced
On 24/1/21 11:57 am, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hello!

On 1/24/21 1:52 AM, Humphrey van Polanen Petel wrote:
However, it seems to me that it would be a lot more useful to add a parameter
allowing the user to display the name of the install from /etc/hostname.
GRUB is a universal bootloader which supports multiple platforms and operating
systems. I'm not sure it would be trivial to implement such a feature for all
possible target configurations that GRUB support just to solve this rather exotic
problem you are describing here.

Adrian


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