From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1ODxkh-0007GG-K4 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 May 2010 06:40:51 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=60477 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ODxkW-0007GA-J8 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 May 2010 06:40:49 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ODxkR-00011d-Tg for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 May 2010 06:40:40 -0400 Received: from smarthost01.mail.zen.net.uk ([212.23.3.140]:40146) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ODxkR-000117-Os for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 May 2010 06:40:35 -0400 Received: from [82.69.40.219] (helo=riva.pelham.vpn.ucam.org) by smarthost01.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1ODxkP-00027Z-4J for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 May 2010 10:40:33 +0000 Received: from cjwatson by riva.pelham.vpn.ucam.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) for grub-devel@gnu.org id 1ODxkN-0001oN-00; Mon, 17 May 2010 11:40:31 +0100 Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 11:40:30 +0100 From: Colin Watson To: grub-devel@gnu.org Message-ID: <20100517104030.GA6872@riva.ucam.org> References: <20100515071117.GG21862@riva.ucam.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Originating-Smarthost01-IP: [82.69.40.219] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Subject: Re: grub2 back to lilo ? X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 10:40:49 -0000 On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 01:41:09PM +0530, BVK Chaitanya wrote: > On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 08:02:22AM +0530, BVK Chaitanya wrote: > >> With GRUB2 that simplicity is not there anymore. > > > > Simplicity ... except when it broke.  Which it did, all the time.  Let's > > not follow the model of those marker comments! > > Given the GRUB script capabilities, we can get this simply by adding > > include $prefix/custom.cfg > > or similar to grub.cfg. I could support that. It might be simpler than expecting people to edit /etc/grub.d/40_custom and re-run update-grub. -- Colin Watson [cjwatson@ubuntu.com]