From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1HLiI1-0005kf-8f for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:01:25 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HLiHz-0005k0-D5 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:01:23 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HLiHx-0005jf-Lp for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:01:22 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HLiHx-0005jc-GV for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:01:21 -0500 Received: from e3.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.143]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HLiHx-0000be-23 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:01:21 -0500 Received: from d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (d01relay02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.234]) by e3.ny.us.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l1QG1HQJ006858 for ; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:01:17 -0500 Received: from d01av04.pok.ibm.com (d01av04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.64]) by d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v8.2) with ESMTP id l1QG1H9f276034 for ; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:01:17 -0500 Received: from d01av04.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av04.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id l1QG1Gta030693 for ; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:01:16 -0500 Received: from [9.53.41.42] (basalt.austin.ibm.com [9.53.41.42]) by d01av04.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l1QG1GRu030668 for ; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:01:16 -0500 From: Hollis Blanchard To: The development of GRUB 2 In-Reply-To: <000401c7577b$99c99f70$2101a8c0@asinusaureus> References: <000401c7577b$99c99f70$2101a8c0@asinusaureus> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:00:15 -0600 Message-Id: <1172505615.910.2.camel@basalt> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 Subject: RE: Fancy menu requirements X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:01:23 -0000 On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 19:51 +0100, Ernest Sales wrote: > > On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 15:16:25 -0500, "Jason Morganson" > 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