A simple default GUI to configure Grub2

[Yorvyk]

On 04/09/12 09:12, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
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> Florian Diesch wrote on 03/09/12 19:09:
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>> schrieb Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt at canonical.com>:
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>>> <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StartupSettings>
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>> Adding a way to modify the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX* variables in
>> /etc/default/grub could be useful
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> Unfortunately the Grub2 manual doesn't make clear what those are for
> or why you might use them. All it says is "Command-line arguments to
> add to menu entries for the Linux kernel."
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> Can you give some examples of how they could be useful?
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I had a instance yesterday where I had to add 'acpi=force' for a couple 
of older machines so that they would power off from shutdown.  There are 
other like 'nomodesetting' that would go here.  A drop down menu with 
some of the more common options might be useful.