Re: rt kernel and nouveau
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Andrei POPESCU
<andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Ma, 27 mar 12, 16:45:39, Tom H wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Andrei POPESCU
>> <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Jo, 22 mar 12, 17:28:26, Sven Joachim wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Getting grub2 to use a different command-line option for each entry left
>>>>> as an exercise for the reader.
>>>>
>>>> I ended up locally diverting /usr/sbin/update-grub (replacing it with a
>>>> symlink to /bin/true) and managing /boot/grub/grub.cfg by hand.
>>>
>>> I think this is the only feature of grub1 that I missed.
>>
>> Why can't you do the same with grub2?
>
> Not implemented. I remember some discussion about it (probably in
> upstream BTS, for Debian I can only find #601940), but apparently
> nothing came out of it.
Do you mean this? (I don't know enough about u-a to understand why
"--force" is needed...)
[root@sidbox:~] # update-alternatives --install
/usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig grub2cfg /bin/true 1
update-alternatives: using /bin/true to provide
/usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig (grub2cfg) in auto mode.
update-alternatives: warning: not replacing /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig with a link.
[root@sidbox:~] # update-alternatives --force --install
/usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig grub2cfg /bin/true 1
update-alternatives: using /bin/true to provide
/usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig (grub2cfg) in auto mode.
[root@sidbox:~] #
[I wish that they'd make the changes needed to make the 601940 wish
list bug come true. The automagic setup was a Debianism that would
probably need a Debian developer working upstream/with upstream to
patch and push. A few years ago, grub2's upstream rejected another
grub1 automatic Debianism, "howmany".]
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