From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
To: Humphrey van Polanen Petel <hpvpp@optusnet.com.au>
Cc: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: need hostname on menu
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2021 01:57:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <68ad9bf5-e814-5e28-8e87-bd67241574fe@physik.fu-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <968fe2d7-e30f-7c50-e425-9366553d4508@optusnet.com.au>
Hello!
On 1/24/21 1:52 AM, Humphrey van Polanen Petel wrote:
> However, it seems to me that it would be a lot more useful to add a parameter
> allowing the user to display the name of the install from /etc/hostname.
GRUB is a universal bootloader which supports multiple platforms and operating
systems. I'm not sure it would be trivial to implement such a feature for all
possible target configurations that GRUB support just to solve this rather exotic
problem you are describing here.
Adrian
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-24 0:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-24 0:52 need hostname on menu Humphrey van Polanen Petel
2021-01-24 0:57 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz [this message]
2021-01-24 3:32 ` Humphrey van Polanen Petel
2021-01-24 9:03 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2021-01-24 11:26 ` Humphrey van Polanen Petel
2021-01-24 11:38 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2021-01-24 9:28 ` Didier Spaier
2021-01-24 9:33 ` Didier Spaier
[not found] <6ecee3f7-3b00-4fba-8320-5c65a2549da7@QAD40071.mod.nl>
2021-01-24 8:45 ` J.Witvliet
2021-01-24 13:06 J.Witvliet
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