Bug#588326: closed by Colin Watson <cjwatson at debian.org> (Re: Bug#588326: grub-common: Some configuration options are not documented in /etc/default/grub (example: GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER))

[Sascha Wilde]

owner at bugs.debian.org (Debian Bug Tracking System) writes:
> On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 01:18:34PM +0200, Sascha Wilde wrote:
>> The configuration option GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER which I found by reading 
>> /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober is not documented in /etc/default/grub where other
>> options are documented in comments.
>> 
>> In addition I wasn't able to find any other place where all grub configuration 
>> options are documented.
>> 
>> I suspect that there might be more options missing from the documentation in
>> /etc/default/grub, too.
>
> I'm not planning to extend /etc/default/grub significantly since it's
> not the best way to provide documentation - changes to it tend to result
> in configuration file prompts for users.  However, in snapshots from
> 20100602 onwards (which you'll find in unstable), 'info grub' has a
> complete section documenting all the available /etc/default/grub keys in
> detail.

This is good news.  Could you consider pointing to the info file in the
/etc/default/grub comments, so that one does not assume (as I first did)
that the description of the keys in the comments is exhaustive?

cheers
sascha
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