Bug#465247: grub-pc: Missing documentation of config variables.

[Robert Millan]

retitle 465247 missing documentation of /etc/default/grub
thanks

On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 12:58:27PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Package: grub-pc
> Version: 1.96+20080210-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> After installing grub-pc, one thing I wanted to change was to enable the
> quiet option (which imho should be default, separate bug report will
> follow).
> It was not easy to find out, how to do that. There wasn't either a
> README.Debian, nor a commented /etc/default/grub file.

I think the appropiate place for that would be update-grub's --help output.
This would (I expect) automatically add the info to update-grub's manpage.

If you have time, could you try sending a patch for that in upstream?

> After digging into  /etc/grub.d/10_linux, I found, that (most likely)
> the preferred way to change the kopts, is to 
> add GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX to /etc/default/grub.
> Imho GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX should be added to /etc/default/grub by default
> with comments about the available options.

This will be reconverted automatically when I have a minute to review the
patch that was sent.

> There are also other config variables, like GRUB_DRIVE_BOOT or
> GRUB_DEVICE which aren't documented and easy accessible.

I don't remember about these two, but note that not all variables are meant
to be user-editted.

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