[Mageia-dev] Debugging boot times

[Thierry Vignaud]

On 10 November 2011 11:11, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
>> Should be done automatically in %post.
>> See memtest86+ for example
>
> Well I thought about this, but memtest86+ adds a totally new entry,
> should we do the same here, should it only be done for the current
> kernel, how would it handle kernel updates, etc.
>
> At present I'm happy to enable it manually when needed, but if people
> want it to be more automatic and appear as a boot entry in grub, then
> I'm happy enough to do that.

Like we have a "linux safe" entry only for the main entry  (the vmlinuz symlink)
and not for every installed kernels (multiples instances of multiples favors
(main one, tmb, rt, linus, ...)), I think we can have a "linux boot timing"
entry too.