Bug#342222: grub: impossible to specify "no altoptions at all"

[Jason Thomas]

close 342222
thanks

## should update-grub create alternative automagic boot options
## e.g. alternative=true
##      alternative=false
# alternative=false


On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 12:22:07PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> Package: grub
> Version: 0.97-1
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a system that doesn't have any console, and is inaccessible in
> a vendor's computing center (it's a rented server, see
> http://www.alturo.de/). Hence, it doesn't make any sense to have any
> altoptions in /boot/grub/menu.lst since there is nobody there to
> select it, and nobody can operate the console since it doesn't exist.
> 
> However, when I delete all altoptions lines from the menu.lst file,
> update-grub recreates the single user option which is especially
> pointless since the machine does only have the network to interface
> with the outside world.
> 
> It should be possible to have no altoptions specified at all without
> update-grub trying to be smarter than oneself.
> 
> Greetings
> Marc
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: testing/unstable
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.14.3-zgsrv
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
> 
> Versions of packages grub depends on:
> ii  libc6                         2.3.5-8.1  GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
> ii  libncurses5                   5.5-1      Shared libraries for terminal hand
> 
> grub recommends no packages.
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 
> 
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