Re: Customize grub

[Franklin PIAT]

Thank you for your feedback.

On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 01:04 +0100, Cesare Leonardi wrote:
> Franklin PIAT wrote:
> > Even though I'm not a grub developer, i'll try to answer some of your
> > questions..

> I make some comment, hoping you appreciate.
Of course.

> - now the "update-grub" page is more about the "/etc/default/grub" 
> variables rather than the update-grub script. That's a bit confusing.
I'll try to rewrite it to make it less 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).
add to my TODO list ;)

> - 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
Yep. I've asked devels to add a commented line in the default file, so
it's easier to use.

> > 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 ;)