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Package: grub
Version: 0.97-27
I am currently in the process of trying to make update-grub play
nicely with our configuration management system. Ideally, I
would like to be able to specify xenkopt, xenhopt, kopt, etc. in
/etc/default/grub, and *not* have to mess with
/boot/grub/menu.lst (because it's far better for the
configuration management system to manage a whole file than fight
over menu.lst with other systems.)
The system I have now works fine for the Xen options, but falls
down on kopt, because of the fact that kopt_2_6 is (somewhat
inexplicably) hard-coded in with its own options for fresh
installs -- there seems to be no way of setting this in the
defaults file.
Is it possible to either not rely on kopt_2_6, or permit it to be
set from the defaults file in the same way that kopt can be?
I include a (probably naive) patch for the former case:
diff -u update-grub.orig update-grub
--- update-grub.orig 2007-04-12 11:46:52.000000000 +0100
+++ update-grub 2007-04-12 12:11:04.000000000 +0100
@@ -711,9 +711,6 @@
# Extract the kernel options to use
kopt=$(GetMenuOpt "kopt" "$kopt")
-# Set the kernel 2.6 option only for fresh install
-test -z "$(GetMenuOpt "kopt" "")" && kopt_2_6="root=$root_device ro"
-
# Extract options for specific kernels
opts="$(ExtractMenuOpts "\(kopt_[[:alnum:]_]\+\)")"
test -z "$opts" || eval "$opts"
Thanks,
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On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 09:15:04AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 12:20:54PM +0100, Michael Clarke wrote:
> > Package: grub
> > Version: 0.97-27
> >
> > I am currently in the process of trying to make update-grub play
> > nicely with our configuration management system. Ideally, I
> > would like to be able to specify xenkopt, xenhopt, kopt, etc. in
> > /etc/default/grub, and *not* have to mess with
> > /boot/grub/menu.lst (because it's far better for the
> > configuration management system to manage a whole file than fight
> > over menu.lst with other systems.)
>
> We implemented precisely that for grub2. Would you please look into our
> next upload that implements the /etc/default/grub you want?
This has been implemented in grub2 (latest upload). Please, have a look at it.
And if you're missing some parameters, file a bug against this package.
Some notes:
- kopt (now known as GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX) is only implemented in CVS (will be
there in next upload).
- xen options need to be handled separately by Xen maintainers.
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