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Re: Some ideas about new features of grub
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Robert Millan |
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Re: Some ideas about new features of grub |
Date: |
Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:11:45 +0200 |
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On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 02:19:14AM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 20:39 +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
>
> > > With LUA, we can have a more user friendly interface. I like way rEFIt
> > > works, it doesn't require configuration. At runtime, it detects os and
> > > shows an icon for each of them. We can achieve similar goal using lua.
> > > Of course, advanced user can write the menu manually, but for most
> > > user, a smart auto-generated menu may be more appealing.
> >
> > But we have grub-mkconfig for that. This is what distributions shipping
> > GRUB are using.
>
> That's what distributions shipping GRUB2 are using. Fedora is totally
> unaware of grub-mkconfig, so I have to rerun it every time I install a
> new kernel.
>
> grub-mkconfig won't pick up all filesystems, mounted and unmounted.
It will if you install os-prober. I think os-prober is only available on
debian yet, but it's not debian-specific.
> And let's not forget about recovery disks. That's where lua would
> really shine.
Yes, it's a nice feature. But it's not what most people will use GRUB for.
--
Robert Millan
The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and
how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we
still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."
- Re: Some ideas about new features of grub, (continued)
Re: Some ideas about new features of grub, Marco Gerards, 2009/07/31
Re: Some ideas about new features of grub, Robert Millan, 2009/07/04
- Re: Some ideas about new features of grub, Bean, 2009/07/04
- Re: Some ideas about new features of grub, Robert Millan, 2009/07/07
- Re: Some ideas about new features of grub, Pavel Roskin, 2009/07/08
- Re: Some ideas about new features of grub,
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- Re: Some ideas about new features of grub, BandiPat, 2009/07/10
- Re: Some ideas about new features of grub, Bean, 2009/07/11
- Re: Some ideas about new features of grub, Michal Suchanek, 2009/07/11
- Re: Some ideas about new features of grub, Colin Watson, 2009/07/11
- Re: Some ideas about new features of grub, Robert Millan, 2009/07/11
- Re: Some ideas about new features of grub, Felix Zielcke, 2009/07/11
Re: Some ideas about new features of grub, Robert Millan, 2009/07/11
Re: Some ideas about new features of grub, Pavel Roskin, 2009/07/12