Bug 134720

Summary: Profile setting at boot
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1 Reporter: Michael Stather <kontakt>
Component: YaST2Assignee: Jiří Suchomel <jsuchome>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact: Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity: Enhancement    
Priority: P5 - None CC: duwe
Version: Alpha 3   
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Description Michael Stather 2005-11-21 17:59:45 UTC 
I don´t know if that´s already possible in 10.1 (wasn´t in 10.0) but it would be great if I could set a system profile (as created with the YaST2 "profile management" module) when I load my system. Perhaps with a two second delay after which the last profile will be loaded. If I want another one then I´ve to press a key and I can select another profile.
This would be the killer feature for computers e.g. in different network environments like notebooks.
Comment 1 Michael Gross 2005-11-22 12:00:49 UTC 
AFAIK; No.

Implementing this would require YaST to modify the bootloader configuration to pass a special append which could be parsed out from /proc/cmdline by the init scripts at a later time. I'll assign this to the maintainer of the profile-management module and take some others into CC.

They should decide.
Comment 2 Jiří Suchomel 2005-11-22 12:06:53 UTC 
Joachim, what do you think? I thought there alreary is a possibility to add profile to bootloader menu (although not provided by yast2-profile-manager).
Comment 3 Christian Zoz 2005-11-24 11:59:35 UTC 
You can choose the profile at boottime. Just press F2 in bootloader menu to get all available options. Then you may change profile with F<?>.