https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=620434 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=620434#c22 --- Comment #22 from Josef Reidinger <jreidinger@novell.com> 2010-11-16 08:39:28 UTC --- (In reply to comment #21)
Open a different report for enhanced customization of kernel command line? That could be a feature request although I believe it is a too specialized issue for a public poll. The other side of the medal appears more like a bug an can therefore not be placed usefully on features.opensuse.org, I believe. Wouldn`t it really be a job that could be done with bounded effort to detect manual menu.lst changes to leave this entries simply in place eventually changing the kernel release number on updates? What is the script responsible for creating new menu.lsts??
Hi, in general problem is that each additional customization of kernel line make tool more and more "expert" like as it require more advanced knowledge. So features helps to manage which is still in scope of tool and what is out of scope. It is not so easy with changing booting menu, as GRUB allow many options and e.g. it allow different parameters for different kernels. If you have just one kernel and want to have same parameters you can simple disable autoadapting (set LOADER_TYPE in /etc/sysconfig/bootloader to 'none' and set your in menu section kernel and initrd as symlinks). Reason why it is not so simple is two. If you have more kernel with different flavors, then it is not so easy to detect which one is correct. The second one is also important. If you change flavor of kernel ( so e.g. from default to desktop) and remove old one, then it is not ensure, that new one is installed before old one, so in one moment there could be no section in menu.lst and I need to get somewhere parameters and this is why it is introduced /boot/sysconfig/bootloader, which store it and it is always clear what is used during upgrade of kernel. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.