From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1FB6Vv-0007NV-Nn for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 03:35:23 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FB6Vu-0007Mh-1s for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 03:35:22 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FB6Vs-0007M1-4I for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 03:35:21 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FB6Vs-0007Ly-0J for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 03:35:20 -0500 Received: from [193.144.10.29] (helo=relay1.udl.es) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FB6br-0008N7-64 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 03:41:31 -0500 Received: from jupiter.udl.net (jupiter.udl.net [172.16.2.2]) by relay1.udl.es (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1K8YxQS013626 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 09:35:10 +0100 Received: from [172.16.2.186] (eup35_06 [172.16.2.186]) by jupiter.udl.net (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id k1K8SCe04912 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 09:28:16 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <43F97D9F.7040905@raulete.net> Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 09:28:15 +0100 From: adrian15 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: grub-devel@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88/1293/Sun Feb 19 17:40:25 2006 on relay1.udl.es X-Virus-Status: Clean Subject: idea for storing menu.lst with 1_5 stage or equivalent on grub2 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, 20 Feb 2006 08:35:22 -0000 This is a idea for making installations of Grub safer. It is based on Grub Legacy but I think you will find an equivalent on grub2. Most people ask about grub showing grub> and not knowing what do to do when that happens. (Usually when they remove Linux from pc). If I understand it correctly that means that 1_5 stage has been loaded but it does not have found /boot/grub/menu.lst because it does not exist. My idea is that when embedd 1_5 stage we should also add a configuration file with the following contents: timeout 0 default 0 title correct install configfile /boot/grub/menu.lst HERE GOES CONTENTS of /boot/grub/menu.lst from the first title. This way if the file /boot/grub/menu.lst is there it is loaded but if it does not exists its backup is loaded. So... everyone is happy. adrian15