Re: Customize grub

[Cesare Leonardi]

Franklin PIAT wrote:
> Even though I'm not a grub developer, i'll try to answer some of your
> questions..

Thanks a lot, Franklin, you've been very kind and your explanations very 
clear!
I've read your pages on wiki.debian.org and that was the kind of 
information i was searching for! In particular grub.cfg.manpage and 
update-grub.manpage was very useful. I hope that this wiki pages will be 
merged soon with the official documentation.

I make some comment, hoping you appreciate.
- now the "update-grub" page is more about the "/etc/default/grub" 
variables rather than the update-grub script. That's a bit confusing.
- some variables can be added to the TODO section in 
update-grub.manpage: GRUB_PRELOAD_MODULES (as you cited in your reply), 
GRUB_DRIVE_BOOT and GRUB_DEVICE (as Michael Biebl as reported in 
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=465247).
- GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX will be probably a very used variable, but has no 
description. I suggest: parameters appended to the linux command line 
(equivalent to the grub v1 "kopt" variable). Example:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=quiet

> I'm working on some documentation (currently non-offical), which are
> available on :
> http://wiki.debian.org/Grub/Grub2#manpages
> I still "simply" have to merge those information in the grub-v1
> manual to build an official grub-v2 manual.... work in progress ;)

Your work is very valuable, because it is clear and because 
documentation is something that Grub is lacking a lot now.
Many many thanks for spending your time on that!

Regards.

Cesare.