Bug 142042 - No dropdown menu for grub when /boot not mounted
Summary: No dropdown menu for grub when /boot not mounted
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Alias: None
Product: kdm
Classification: Miscellaneous
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Gentoo Packages Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kdm bugs tracker
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Reported: 2007-02-21 23:34 UTC by Manuel
Modified: 2018-04-16 20:22 UTC (History)
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Description Manuel 2007-02-21 23:34:28 UTC 
Version:           3.5.5-r1 (using KDE KDE 3.5.5)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages
Compiler:          gcc version 4.1.1 
OS:                Linux

In the dropdown menu in the reboot dialog of KDM you cannot change the default option in /boot/grub/menu.lst when /boot is on another partition and not mounted.
It would be great if KDM would mount it, change this value and umount it again
Comment 1 Oswald Buddenhagen 2007-04-11 17:07:32 UTC 
sounds terribly specific to me. maybe i should add pre-/post-hooks to execute arbitrary commands.

as a workaround you may use the wrapper script for grub that makes it look like lilo - you could extend the wrapper to do the mounting and unmounting for you.

taking it into another direction, i could try to avoid reading menu.lst directly and call the grub executable like i do for lilo, so you could set up a minimal wrapper around grub.
Comment 2 Nate Graham 2018-04-16 20:22:05 UTC 
KDM is unmaintained and not used in KDE Plasma 5.

SDDM is the login manager used in KDE Plasma 5. If you still have this same issue with SDDM, please file an issue on the SDDM bugtracker (after doing a search for existing issues first!): https://github.com/sddm/sddm/issues/