Re: pretty colors in gfxterm

["Yoshinori K. Okuji" <okuji@enbug.org>]

On Saturday 05 May 2007 18:30, Robert Millan wrote:
> Is it possible to archieve a similar effect to what "color cyan/blue
> white/blue" does in grub legacy, but with grub2 gfxterm?

Theoretically, of course. I didn't implement it, simply because I didn't think 
this was so important.

> This setup has been the default in debian for a while, and we need to
> provide something similar if we don't want our users to miss the "blue
> thingy" during the big migration we're planning.
>
> Ah yes, I forgot to mention we're planning a big migration :-).  Here are
> the details:
>
>   http://wiki.debian.org/GrubTransition

I would say that this is still hard. Especially, I miss security-related 
features. They are easy to implement, but I postponed it, because I was 
planning to rewrite the menu code significantly. But I still don't get much 
time to perform this, and I have no idea on when I will be able to.

Besides that, it is really necessary to check what workarounds for buggy 
BIOSes are missing in GRUB 2. The current bootstrap code on PC is based on 
somewhere around GRUB 0.96, so it is a bit outdated.

Okuji