From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: conditional boot and others
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:11:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1240805462.4158.1.camel@ct> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49F4BD05.1080908@highend-digital.biz>
On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 21:59 +0200, Highend-Digital Support wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we have booting problems which we hope to overcome using grub2.
> Before we dig deeper into grub2-documentation, can we get some very
> brief answers to the following questions:
>
> 1) Is it possible to configure a conditional boot as described below:
>
> if (specific-usb-device is present)
> boot specific-usb-device
> else
> boot some-default-device
I haven't had any success with the USB code, but it's present and may
work for you. It's also possible that BIOS will detect it as a hard
drive. You can use the "search" command to look for devices. It's
possible to use the if-then-else-fi construct with the shell-like
syntax.
> If yes, than 2)
> In what developing state is grub2 ?
> Can it already be used for a 'normal PC'?
> (one known hardware only)
PC support has always been there in GRUB 2.
> Last not least there is question 3:
> Is there a compatibility mode to process menu.lst files from the
> currently used version?
No, there is no compatibility mode at all.
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
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