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Subject:    Re: need hostname on menu
From:       "J.Witvliet--- via Grub-devel" <grub-devel () gnu ! org>
Date:       2021-01-24 13:06:25
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From: "Humphrey van Polanen Petel" \
                <hpvpp@optusnet.com.au<mailto:hpvpp@optusnet.com.au>>
Date: Sunday, 24 January 2021 at 12:27:20
To: "John Paul Adrian Glaubitz" \
                <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de<mailto:glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>>
Cc: "The development of GNU GRUB" <grub-devel@gnu.org<mailto:grub-devel@gnu.org>>
Subject: Re: need hostname on menu


Okay, I get it.

I defer to your decision.

Humphrey

We are but sheep and here to be fleeced

On 24/1/21 8:03 pm, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:

Hello!

On 1/24/21 4:32 AM, Humphrey van Polanen Petel wrote:


Whether it is a trivial problem or not I am not qualified to comment on, but it
nevertheless seems to me that being able to identify at boot a systemby the name
by which it is know is of obvious benefit simply because mnemonics are most easily
remembered.


I was not arguing this point. I was just talking about the development and \
maintenance effort.


All true.
But after some thoughts, and in this particular case...
I would suggest to ask this question to canonical, as they produce the grub-config \
file. Not the people from grub-development.

Afaicr, if you install different versions of Suse, you'll get different lines in \
grub-config (analogue to what you asked for)

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<p><font face="Ubuntu">Okay, I get it.</font></p>
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<div>All true.</div>
<div>But after some thoughts, and in this particular case...</div>
<div>I would suggest to ask this question to canonical, as they produce the \
grub-config file.</div> <div>Not the people from grub-development.</div>
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<div>Afaicr, if you install different versions of Suse, you'll get different lines in \
grub-config (analogue to what you asked for)</div> </div>
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