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Re: No more GRUB legacy at install time since wheezy?



On Vi, 24 iun 11, 15:11:13, Freeman wrote:
> 
> My menu.lst of Grub 0.97 included numerous different rc levels to select
> from.  Just a way of selecting between different interfaces while booting.
> 
> So the following blocks in the automagic section of menu.lst resulted in a 4
> item menu for each kernel, one item booting into GDM, the next starting
> xinit with Openbox--booting from rc5.d, rc4.d rc3.d and rc2.d respectively.
>   
>  ## altoption boot targets option
>  ## multiple altoptions lines are allowed
>  ## e.g. altoptions=(extra menu suffix) extra boot options
>  ##      altoptions=(single-user) single
>  # altoptions=(GDM) 5 vga=791 quiet
>  # altoptions=(Openbox) 4 vga=791 quiet 
>  # altoptions=(Screen) 3 vga=791
>  # altoptions=(single-user mode) single

That's a neat feature of grub1 that was not replicated (yet?) in grub2. 
Any shell script gurus here who might be interested in writing a patch? 
:)

Regards,
Andrei
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