Re: [PATCH] Allow appending kernel options directly from the main menu

[Neal H. Walfield]

> > The following patch lets users to directly edit the kernel command line
> > by pressing 'a' at the grub menu.  This makes it significantly easier
> > for users to do things such as boot in single user mode or pass kernel
> > options for debugging.
> 
> Honestly, I'm not very fascinated with this kind of patch. Because it
> is a solution only for Linux.
> 
> For example, when you boot a Multiboot-compliant OS, you can also
> specify a command-line argument to each modules. Then, there is no
> reason why you specialize the command "kernel".
> 
> So I prefer a more generic solution. Isn't it possible to assign any
> arbitrary shortcut key to any arbitrary menu entry? I might be just
> dreaming, though.

How about `a' followed by a number (or vica versa--I think that the
latter would be better) which would indicate what line to append to?