On Wednesday 18 November 2009 12:27:27 David Bruce Naylor wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've managed to get kdm to work nicely with our grub. See attached for the
> patch. This requires a 'special' menu.lst to support selecting next boot
> OS and the BootManager option in kdmrc to be set to "GRUB".
>
> Sample file:
>
> # Important line, tells grub to use saved option to boot from
> default saved
> timeout 3
>
> title FreeBSD 8.0-i386
> root (hd1,0,a)
> kernel /boot/loader
> # Set the default, for next boot, to 1
> savedefault 1
>
> title FreeBSD 8.0-amd64
> root (hd0,0,a)
> kernel /boot/loader
> # No need to set default as we are it
> #savedefault
>
> # Windows Vista
> title Windows Vista
> root (hd1,1)
> makeactive
> chainloader +1
> # Set the default, for next boot, to 1
> savedefault 1
>
> Make sure you run `grub-set-default 1` otherwise grub will bork when it
> hits the savedefault line (since it cannot create files and expects one to
> be there).
>
> Most of the linux distributions have a patched version of grub that allows
> a difference (and easier) setup. (The patch is called grub-0.97-once.)
> We could integrate that patch (and eliminate the need for this patch) but
> I feel this way allows for greater flexibility.
>
> Outstanding task: teach kdm to read the defaults file to correctly get the
> next booting option (vs assuming the first one is the default).
>
> For those on amd64 an easy way to get grub to work is to install the i386
> grub package (it doesn't have any dependencies beyond the base system).
> I'm currently running grub on amd64.
>
> Regards,
>
> David
>
Do you think you can make the patch flexible enough so that it still works on
Linux? Could it be pushed upstream?
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