V Thu, 29 Aug 2019 03:38:13 -0400 Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> napsáno:
Josef Reidinger composed on 2019-08-29 09:06 (UTC+0200):
Wed, 28 Aug 2019 15:32:05 -0400 Felix Miata composed:
2 The reason I opened bootloader in the first place was a search for a correspondence to /etc/default/grub's
GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU=
which seems to be absent. Need I report a B.O.O. bug asking that this be added? Has this wish been made already? I tried searching, but it's reliably returning either document contains no data, or simply timing out "Secure Connection Failed...The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified".
Hi Felix, this option is not present in yast2-bootloader (but if it is there, it should be kept). What is your use case for it? We need it to decice if it is something to offer all users or if it is specialized "expert" option for very specific use case.
<https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/fedora-installation-39/multiboot-debian-10-fedora-30-workstation-opensuse-leap-15-1-a-4175659865/> is the thread that lead here, a "triple" boot UEFI installation with Debian and Fedora, where installing openSUSE after Debian and Fedora resulted in an openSUSE Grub in which the only apparent choices found by the poster were openSUSE Leap 15.1 and Advanced options, in part I expect because the "Probe Foreign OS" box was not checked. I'm not familiar with any specific details of what is expected with that box checked, because I never use it. I make my own menus with either menu.lst (MBR installations), or custom.cfg (UEFI installations) via /etc/grub.d/06_custom (copied from 40_custom).
Yep, that looks like not checked Probe Foreign OS. In Advanced options are only specific options related to given kernel. All other OS are directly in top level menu and can boot directly from it. I have it even on my own machine. But it should be enabled by default on opensuse.
The use case is a desire to suggest when possibly appropriate that a nominally enlightened or unenlightened multibooter switch his boot menu from multiscreen configuration to single, and be able to do it with openSUSE's flagship tool YaST2 instead of via the shell.
Maybe it's a good idea to offer the option any time more than one or two other operating system(s) have been first installed, if not always?
That is problem. How to find it? Reason why probe foreign os is optional is that it is very time consuming to inspect partitions.
Personally I find all multipage Grub menu configurations obnoxious. They strongly remind me of Windows' little bitty windows with select lists that expose only two or three selections at a time on a screen that has ample space for many times that number in a window nominally taller.
In fact that submenus is mainly to boot specific kernel or btrfs snapshot. For other OSes it should not be used. So goal is to not confuse users and easily allow him to select the latest and greatest kernel. Josef -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: yast-devel+owner@opensuse.org