Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1318 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Saturday, 2008-11-01 at 21:35 +0100, Lars Müller wrote:

> > > The open or a different question is how to display this state ot the
> > > opportinities to the user at the grub screen.  Here the help of
> > > usebility experts might be the most promising approach.
> >
> > I believe that simply it adds an entry to the menu with the kernel name and
> > version, probably sorted by age. This is done by a script in the kernel
> > rpm.
>
> This is _currently_ all done with the help of the script hooks
> (preinstall,postinstall,preuninstall,postuninstall) of the kernel RPM.
>
> The question I had in mind was: How to make the install of several
> kernels _useable_.

I don't understand, there is no problem. When you boot, you will see a 
menu like (invented numbers):

  title openSUSE 11.1 - 2.6.27.4-2
  title openSUSE 11.1 - 2.6.27.4-1
  title openSUSE 11.1 - 2.6.27.3-5

What's the problem with that? Because that's the way it is handled, AFAIK.


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Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.

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