network profiles via grub menu (was Automatically bringing ethernet interfaces up...)

[Jack Aboutboul]

On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 12:03, Jef Spaleta wrote:
> Sean Estabrooks wrote:
> > Already there.
> >
> > You create network profiles and then configure grub with separate >
> entries for each profile you want.   The boot option is 
> > netprofile=[profile name]
> 
> Now of course this begs the question....
> Is there an easy-bake way to create these profile specific grub entries
> as part of the easy-bake way to define specific hardware profiles? And
> is there a clever way to keep profile specific grub entries in sync
> after a kernel upgrade, so that that profile specific grub entries do
> not have to be recreated by hand after the upgrade?
> 
> -jef

Which is why I think having something like this be initscripts based is
much better than being bootloader based. Also, what if someone uses an
alternate bootloader?

--Jack