Bug#298110: marked as done (grub: Custom title in menu.lst)

Fri Nov 25 01:33:16 UTC 2005

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Subject: grub: Custom title in menu.lst
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Package: grub
Version: 0.95+cvs20040624-13
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
File: /sbin/update-grub

Hi,

it would be nice to be able to set a custom title for the menu.list entries.

The patch below lets override the variable "title" (and possibly other
ones) via /etc/default/grub.

Cheers,

Free

--- /sbin/update-grub	2005-01-16 23:20:51.000000000 +0100
+++ update-grub	2005-03-04 19:56:34.000000000 +0100
@@ -237,6 +237,9 @@
 # Default kernel options, overidden by the kopt statement in the menufile.
 kopt="root=$root_device ro"
 
+# Title
+title="Debian GNU/Linux"
+
 # Drive(in GRUB terms) where the kernel is located. Overridden by the
 # kopt statement in menufile.
 # if we don't have a device.map then we can't use the convert function.
@@ -269,6 +272,11 @@
 # stores the command line arguments
 	command_line_arguments=$1
 
+# read user configuration
+if test -f "/etc/default/grub" ; then
+    . /etc/default/grub
+fi
+
 # Default options to use in a new menu.lst . This will only be used if menu.lst
 # doesn't already exist. Only edit the lines between the two "EOF"s. The others are
 # part of the script.
@@ -522,7 +530,7 @@
 	recovery_suffix=$7
 	initrd=$8
 
-	echo "title		Debian GNU/Linux, kernel $kernel_version $recovery_desc" >> $buffer
+	echo "title		$title, kernel $kernel_version $recovery_desc" >> $buffer
 
 	# lock the alternative options
 	if test x"$lock_alternative" = x"true" ; then



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Subject: Wasn't a NMU
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Package: grub
Version: 0.97-1

Hello,

This bug was mark as closed by a NMU by mistake. Closing it according.

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