Add Boot Loader entries for common hardware problems
We should add bootloader entries with common kernel command line options that we recommend as workarounds. Could prevent having people to tweak boot options and fail (typos).
To make this happen, we need:
- Decide if having this for EFI boot only would be a good enough first iteration (Help Desk)
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Add a "Tails (External Hard Disk)" option that removes
live-media=removable - Wait for #17545
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Adjust the design/implementation of #17545 to also report additional boot options
- Minimize cost because we don't know yet whether this will actually be used
- Wait for some time i.e. collect data
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Check the data sent by users' systems in order to:
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Figure out if it's worth doing this analysis regularly
- if it's worth it, figure out how we're going to do this analysis regularly
- if it's not worth it, abort and reject this issue
- Identify most commonly used boot loader options
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Figure out if it's worth doing this analysis regularly
- Figure out how to present this to users (FT + UX)
- Implement (FT)
In a second iteration, it might even be possible to have GRUB add these options automatically, depending on the hardware it detects. Let’s not block on this initially.
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