Successful suspension should rewrite grub like OpenSUSE

Bug #3221 reported by Sitsofe Wheeler
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grub (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

In OpenSUSE 10 when you successfully suspend grub is told to not display its menu and instead immediately boot the suspended kernel. This would be an invaluable option to have in Ubuntu too.

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Jeroen (jeroenubuntu) wrote :

And what if you don't want to boot Ubuntu but another OS? This would force you to boot into Ubuntu.

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Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe) wrote :

Well as someone over on the SUSE bugzilla suggested perhaps there should be an option to turn this off (but with it defaulting to on). But if the filesystem is not unmounted and shared between OSes booting to different operating system after a suspend is crazy - you should do a reboot not a suspend...

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Chuck Short (zulcss) wrote :

Can you provide the reference in suse bugzilla?

Thanks
chuck

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Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe) wrote :

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=128617 (normal grub menu after "Suspend computer")

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Timothy Smith (tas50) wrote :

This becomes very useful if you boot into a kernel that is not your default kernel and then hibernate your machine. Currently if you then boot your machine back up after the hibernation and allow grub to do its thing (perhaps you didn't remember what kernel you were in) then it will fail to resume.

If when you suspended, grub added a new default kernel that resumed this could be avoided. If the user didn't wish to boot into Linux or for whatever reason wanted a fresh boot they can just escape into the grub menu and select another option.

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Maftoul Samuel (samuel-maftoul) wrote :

Something new on this ?
No decision if we should rewrite or not the /boot/grub/menu.lst.

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Shane Fagan (shanepatrickfagan) wrote :

menu.lst has been deprecated in karmic and no one seems to care too much about this issue marking as invalid.

Changed in grub (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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