Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1318 mails)

[Lars Müller <lmuelle@xxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 09:00:37PM +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On Saturday, 2008-11-01 at 18:52 +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_.

Like the installation of several window managers.  Here I'm at least
aware of the configuration opportunities KDM provides to select
different WMs.

Lars
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Lars Müller [ˈlaː(r)z ˈmʏlɐ]
Samba Team
SUSE Linux, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany