Bug#633812: grub2 should include a possibility to add command line options for kfreebsd kernels

[Arno Töll]

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Package: grub-common
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
User: debian-bsd at lists.debian.org
Usertags: kfreebsd


As Linux (and other systems), also the kfreebsd kernel supports command
line switches, the user might want to append upon boot through grub. See
[1] for a list of recognized boot options.

Therefore I'd like to suggest to add support for command line switches
through the Debian /etc/default/grub mechanism, namely
GRUB_CMDLINE_KFREEBSD and GRUB_CMDLINE_KFREEBSD_DEFAULT.

To achieve this, not only 10_kfreebsd.in needs to be patched, but also
grub-mkconfig.in. I attached a patch enabling support for the variables
above, which work very similar to the way of their LINUX counterparts.

Note I didn't test the result binary package, because building the grub2
binary package does not work in a pbuilder chroot and I didn't want to
trash my system with build dependencies of it. However I did test the
final scripts and they seem to work.

[1] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=boot
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with kind regards,
Arno Töll
IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC
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