I am working on bug 5416
5416 GRUB shouldn't track nevada build numbers on official releases
http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=5416
My proposed solution to the bug is in the comment #12 field.
This email discussion on how I plan to implement the solution.
Your comments/suggestions are welcomed in one or both items below.
1) As discussed in the proposed solution,
I plan to introduce a new field in the DC manifest for specifying
an alternate title for entries in the grub menu.
I am trying to decide where to put this field.
The logical place is in the <grub_menu_modification> section
of the DC manifest. Currently, this section contains additional
entries to the grub menu. Here's an example of what is there today:
<grub_menu_modifications>
<entry>
<title_suffix>with magnifier</title_suffix>
<line>kernel$
/platform/i86pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix -B assistive_tech=magnifier</line>
<line>module /boot/boot_archive</line>
</entry>
.....
<grub_menu_modifications>
I plan to add the entry as follows:
<grub_menu_modifications>
<title>My special title for the grub menu</title>
<entry>
<title_suffix>with magnifier</title_suffix>
<line>kernel$
/platform/i86pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix -B assistive_tech=magnifier</line>
<line>module /boot/boot_archive</line>
</entry>
.....
<grub_menu_modifications>
Even though "title" sounds very general, the fact that it is
within the <grub_menu_modification> block means that it
is only applicable to grub_menu_modifications.
2) Another problem to solve is how to pass this special string into
the grub menu of the installed system.
I was planning to parse out the special string from the Live CD's
menu.lst. However, I realized that there are many
entries in the Live CD's menu.lst and many of them have suffix.
So, which one should I use as the title.
At this time, the DC creates the Live CD's grub menu entries
and I know for a fact that the first entry does not have the suffixes.
I remember discussion about future improvement and the possibility of
moving the accessibility entries to the top or something.
So, perhaps it is not a good idea for me to rely on the order of
the Live CD's grub menu entries.
To solve this problem, I propose putting the special string for
the grub menu(if any) into the .image_info file on the Live CD.
This entry to .image_info will only be added if there's a special title.
The ICT can look up the info from the .image_info and modify the
entries in menu.lst as needed. This won't rely on the ordering of
the grub menu entries, and avoids all the parsing of Live CD's menu.lst.
Your thoughts?
Thanks,
--Karen
