Kastus wrote:

On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 10:01:27PM -0400, James Knott wrote:

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According to what I've read in the on line docs, I should be able to set a variable, such as PROFILE in Grub, by adding a line to menu.lst. I've added the line:

append = "PROFILE=Home"

But it doesn't appear to create the environment variable PROFILE.

Do you mean scpm profile? It is not environment variable. As far as I know PROFILE is reserved for scpm.

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Any idea what I'm doing wrong? As far as I can tell, I've followed the instructions exactly.

What instructions? What is that your trying to achieve?

Regards, -Kastus

I'm trying to set up different profiles on my notebook, for use on my home network and elsewhere. Here's a quote from the on line help. in the section on scpm: Profile Selection during Boot It is possible to select a profile during the boot process by providing the boot parameter PROFILE=<name-of-the-profile> at the boot prompt. In the boot loader configuration (/boot/grub/menu.lst), the option title reflects the name of the profile. For example: File: The File /boot/grub/menu.lst . . . append = "vga=0x317 hde=ide-scsi PROFILE=home"

Davy Brion wrote:

On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 22:01:27 -0400, James Knott wrote:

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According to what I've read in the on line docs, I should be able to set a variable, such as PROFILE in Grub, by adding a line to menu.lst. I've added the line:

append = "PROFILE=Home"

But it doesn't appear to create the environment variable PROFILE.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong? As far as I can tell, I've followed the instructions exactly.

adding parameters to Grub doesn't create environment variabels... any parameter you add to Grub will be passed on to the kernel as a kernel parameter

According to the on line help it does. Here's a quote from the scpm section: Profile Selection during Boot It is possible to select a profile during the boot process by providing the boot parameter PROFILE=<name-of-the-profile> at the boot prompt. In the boot loader configuration (/boot/grub/menu.lst), the option title reflects the name of the profile. For example: File: The File /boot/grub/menu.lst . . . append = "vga=0x317 hde=ide-scsi PROFILE=home" Then, /etc/rc.d/boot.scpm checks PROFILE to determine what profile to load.

On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 13:58:34 +0200, Anders Johansson wrote:

On Tuesday 06 July 2004 07.43, Davy Brion wrote:

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adding parameters to Grub doesn't create environment variabels... any parameter you add to Grub will be passed on to the kernel as a kernel parameter

That's true. But any parameter the kernel doesn't recognize will be passed on to init as an environment variable

ah, that's interesting to know :)