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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] alternative kernels
From: Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com>
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On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 7:46 PM, Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sunday 02 November 2014 18:05:29 Tom H wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 12:16 PM, Peter Humphrey
>>>
>>> My grub-0.99 lets me choose from four kernels and two or three run
> levels
>>> at boot time, and grub-2 can't handle this yet, or it couldn't the last
>>> time I checked. I don't suggest that everyone has a similar need, but at
>>> least in some cases the old grub does still have a place.
>>
>> You can edit "/etc/grub.d/10_linux" to add more than the regular and
>> the recovery entries.
>>
>> You can also "chmod -x" the files in "/etc/grub.d/*" and create manual
>> entries in 40_custom (and keep it executable!).
>
> Seems like there are more ways to skin the cat than I could shake a stick at
> (apologies for the mixed metaphors).

:)

Ideally there'd be an option to set "GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_EXTRA1",
"GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_EXTRA2", ... in "/etc/default/grub" to generate
extra entries.