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A user may wish to use an image that is not sorted as the "latest" version as the top-level entry. For example, in Arch Linux, if a user has the LTS and regular kernels installed, "/boot/vmlinuz-linux-lts" gets sorted as the "latest" compared to "/boot/vmlinuz-linux", meaning the LTS kernel becomes the top-level entry. However, a user may wish to use the regular kernel as the top-level default with the LTS only existing as a backup. This need can be seen in Arch Linux's AUR with two user-submitted packages[0][1] providing an update hook which patches /etc/grub.d/10_linux to move the desired kernel to the top-level. This patch serves to solve this in a more generic way. Introduce the GRUB_TOP_LEVEL, GRUB_TOP_LEVEL_XEN and GRUB_TOP_LEVEL_OS_PROBER variables to allow users to specify the top-level entry. Create grub_move_to_front() as a helper function which moves entries to the front of a list. This function does the heavy lifting of moving the menu entry to the front in each script. In 10_netbsd, since there isn't an explicit list variable, extract the items that are being iterated through into a list so that we can optionally apply grub_move_to_front() to the list before the loop. [0]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/grub-linux-default-hook [1]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/grub-linux-rt-default-hook Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Oskari Pirhonen <xxc3ncoredxx@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
All executable files in this directory are processed in shell expansion order. 00_*: Reserved for 00_header. 10_*: Native boot entries. 20_*: Third party apps (e.g. memtest86+). The number namespace in-between is configurable by system installer and/or administrator. For example, you can add an entry to boot another OS as 01_otheros, 11_otheros, etc, depending on the position you want it to occupy in the menu; and then adjust the default setting via /etc/default/grub.