Bug#561441: grub-common: creating a new target like "Recovery" not working

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Donnerstag, den 17.12.2009, 12:17 +0530 schrieb Ritesh Raj Sarraf:
> Package: grub-common
> Version: 1.98~20091210-1
> Severity: minor
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> In Grub2, I have been trying to create a new target "Debug Mode", just
> like the "Recovery Mode". It doesn't seem to be generated for the
> grub.cfg file.
> 
> I have attached the changed files I had done to make the same.
> Problem is that the "Debug Mode" options that I want, were never
> getting
> appended.
> 
> Appreciate if you can point where I am doing wrong. You could also add
> a
> similar example file into /usr/share/doc/
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Ritesh
> 
> 

You need to export any variable in /etc/default/grub which you add
yourself.
I.e. export GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_DEBUG="false" in /etc/default/grub should
work, but I haven't tested this yet.
For the variables we support, we do it in /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig.
But these changes get overwritten then with the next package upgrade.

Also note that your attached files have .ucf-old respectively .dpkg-old
and so don't have any effect.
grub-mkconfig ignores even all /etc/grub.d/*.dpkg* files even if they're
executable (+x).
-- 
Felix Zielcke
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