Bug#561441: grub-common: creating a new target like "Recovery" not working

Ritesh Raj Sarraf rrs at researchut.com
Wed Jan 6 09:52:01 UTC 2010


Hi Felix,

Thanks. The workaround you mentioned worked.

I have done some customizations and am sending it as a patch.

It might make making customizations much simpler this way.


Regards,
Ritesh


On Thursday 17 Dec 2009 15:52:34 Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> Hi Felix,
> 
> On Thursday 17 Dec 2009 15:35:12 Felix Zielcke wrote:
> > You need to export any variable in /etc/default/grub which you add
> > yourself.
> > I.e. export GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_DEBUG="false" in /etc/default/grub should
> > work, but I haven't tested this yet.
> > For the variables we support, we do it in /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig.
> > But these changes get overwritten then with the next package upgrade.
> 
> Hmmm!! I'll try that and see if that helps. Thanks.
> 
> > Also note that your attached files have .ucf-old respectively .dpkg-old
> > and so don't have any effect.
> 
> Oh! Yes. That was taken care of. I just copied them now.
> They actually got generated because the default files were modified when I
>  was trying to setup this request. And today's grub update sensed those
>  changes.
> 
> Regards,
> Ritesh
> 

-- 
Ritesh Raj Sarraf
RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com
"Necessity is the mother of invention."
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