Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH OSSTEST 01/12] Add support of parsing grub which has 'submenu' primitive

[Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2015-02-11 at 14:44 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Robert Ho writes ("[PATCH OSSTEST 01/12] Add support of parsing grub which 
> has 'submenu' primitive"):
> >  From a hvm kernel build from Linux stable Kernel tree,
> >  the auto generated grub2 menu will have 'submenu' primitive, upon the
> >  'menuentry' items. Xen boot entries will be grouped into a submenu. This
> >  patch adds capability to support such grub formats. Also, this patch adjust
> >  some indent alignments.
> 
> Thanks for this submission.  Dealing with submenus is definitely
> something we want to do.
> 
> I haven't looked at the code in detail yet but I have a general
> question: we currently count menu entries and eventually write
> GRUB_DEFAULT=<some number>  into /etc/default/grub.

FWIW at some point (possibly coinciding with the addition of submenus,
I'm not sure) grub gained the ability to specify the title of the menu
item you wish to boot as the default, which would simplify things if it
could be used universally (i.e. was supported in Wheezy already).



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