Fancy menu requirements

Fancy menu requirements

[Jason Morganson]

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Hello,

From what I have read about the menu on the list and on the wiki there has
been some discussion on it but no set requirements for it yet. I added a
page to the wiki to help collate the discussion, right now it just has the
two messages from Yoshinori K. Okuji:

 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2006-04/msg00056.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2006-05/msg00008.html

I am planning on taking the discussions on the menu and trying to form a
loose description of what the desired design should end up like. Because of
how important this feature will be to GRUB I wanted to put this up where
everyone can change and comment on it. It would be helpful to brainstorm a
little on this first so just throw any ideas on the page or on this thread.
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2006-05/msg00008.html>
Regards,
Jason

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RE: Fancy menu requirements

[Ernest Sales]

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?

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.

Maybe we can't see the forest for the trees?

Regards,
Ernest

RE: Fancy menu requirements

[Hollis Blanchard]

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