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From: Hollis Blanchard <hollis@penguinppc.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: Fancy menu requirements
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:00:15 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1172505615.910.2.camel@basalt> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000401c7577b$99c99f70$2101a8c0@asinusaureus>

On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 19:51 +0100, Ernest Sales wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 15:16:25 -0500, "Jason Morganson" <jmorganson@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Because of how important this feature will be to GRUB I wanted to put this
> up where everyone can change and comment on it.
> 
> Do you really think a boot manager needs graphics and soft fonts?

The Linux distributions believe this.

> I find text menus smart enough for this, the beauty of simplicity if you
> like.
> 
> On the other hand, what I would ask for is self-containment (code in first
> disc sector, or else in its own partition) and autodetect-and-config as a
> start point to further customization. I took a glance at GRUB's site, I am
> loosely following this list for a while, and can't yet figure if GRUB
> supports these features.

Yes, it does.

-Hollis




  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-26 16:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2007-02-23 18:51 ` Fancy menu requirements Ernest Sales
2007-02-26 16:00   ` Hollis Blanchard [this message]
2007-02-19 20:16 Jason Morganson

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