Re: Setting variables in GRUB

[Danilo Godec]

On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Scott Kruger wrote:

> I have a simple question, but I haven't found anyone that can answer it.
> A lot of utilities for maintaining network profiles use lilo to state
> where one as at.  For example, quickswitch has as it's instructions:
> LILO: linux SWITCHTO=work
>
> Is there an equivalent way of doing this with GRUB?

You should just add the 'SWITCHTO=work' to the kernel line as in:

title  = Test
root   = (hd0,0)
kernel = /bzImage-2.2.18 vga=0 root=/dev/md0 SWITCHTIO=work

    D.