[Feature Request] Option to select default kernel to boot with

[bkw777]

[Feature Request] Option to select default kernel to boot with

[bkw777]

Ukuu had some grub features, and ripping them out with extreme prejudice was one of the first things I did to make this fork.

This util should definitely not involve itself with editing bootloader configuration, especially considerng there are many different possible bootloaders besides grub and no standardized way of configuring them. There are other utils for managing whatever bootloader you have (yes I know it's probably grub2, but, it could also be a dozen other things). Booting is a non-trivial process and it's best left to a dedicated tool whos only job is to deal with all it's complications properly, not some half-baked code in here that could ony ever handle the most common case, and possibly even break something in some unexpected case. Even if it had the feature, no one should trust it or risk using it.

If there was a "next-boot-chooser" tool that wasn't grub-specific, or even if it was, it might be ok to provide buttons to use it. But all I know of is grub2-set-default, but that takes a menu-entry number as it's argument, not a kernel version. We'd have to parse grub2.conf to try to get a correct list of menu entry numbers and matching display values. Maybe that's not too crazy but even that much feels like getting into an unrelated job that some other tool should do right rather than we do half-axxed.

[bkw777]

Lacking any ideas, I'm closing this.