Bug 597740

Summary:	Bootloader cleanup idea
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.3	Reporter:	ryan smith <ryan14>
Component:	Bootloader	Assignee:	Josef Reidinger <jreidinger>
Status:	RESOLVED FEATURE	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Enhancement
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Factory
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Hardware:	PC
OS:	openSUSE 11.3
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Description ryan smith 2010-04-19 12:03:26 UTC

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 SUSE/3.6.3-1.2 Firefox/3.6.3

I have a feature request for OpenSuse 11.3's bootloader. Currently if a user install's a new linux kernel the bootloader displays multiple installations like this:

OpenSuse 11.2 -2.6.31 etc etc (default)
Failsafe OpenSuse 11.2 -2.6.3 etc etc (default)
Desktop OpenSuse 11.2 -2.6.31 etc etc
Failsafe OpenSuse 11.2 -2.6.3 etc etc (desktop)

Alot of beginners won't even know what this is or which one to choose. 

You should only display one OpenSuse 11.2 and hide the other options with a "see more" button that users can push Enter on to make them visible.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Jozef Uhliarik 2010-04-19 13:49:18 UTC

Josef, you are working or worked on problem with too long names for boot sections.
BTW the ideas could be added via FATE. please look at https://features.opensuse.org/

Comment 2 Josef Reidinger 2010-04-19 14:08:56 UTC

Yes, this feature is not trivial to implement, so please add it to our feature tracking system https://features.opensuse.org/. Also part of your idea is not technically possible ( grub doesn't allow "see more" ).
Thanks