From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1IH1OV-0002zR-5X for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 13:56:59 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IH1OU-0002yM-99 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 13:56:58 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IH1OS-0002uy-7X for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 13:56:57 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IH1OS-0002ud-3W for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 13:56:56 -0400 Received: from [66.249.92.173] (helo=ug-out-1314.google.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IH1Nu-00010E-1Q for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 13:56:44 -0400 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 34so594164ugf for ; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 10:55:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:x-accept-language:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=GMFf7AUZtdmKCvP79cAip1aG+PpDZRatN8jRm3gsZ5IUWZj0L+4arB1Z2ldlHQ+S0LT5nncLwLx+bOhIiGncdN8rqnQaCjAFrGUsLzB+ZVxiY34GJRV19/OlaMYPn1zy1rvwk669Vs45gdtcdlxgt/4R/WYAnRgy7RCiivacZSw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:x-accept-language:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=XpD9vKAHOFlPe3pJjiQ+bni3cZe+ahgSW9SicMBls4tRoAZzXQQbU3A+/AMtW92yRVKXqDUQCnUN93Wc1Oq98RXJY7JlzQzZv+ZCUkuYuf424+brnq2TTsKsaeLBtFHqim4qXD00svXoGljKzFWy9YHsfOD4pLt+Wbg+4MTC9to= Received: by 10.66.218.3 with SMTP id q3mr3086801ugg.1186163731925; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 10:55:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.7? ( [83.45.59.128]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id k28sm3399169ugd.2007.08.03.10.55.29 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 03 Aug 2007 10:55:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <46B36C0E.2070901@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 19:55:26 +0200 From: adrian15 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <46A4B040.6070404@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 (Google crawlbot) Subject: Re: multidistro grub2 idea 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: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 17:56:58 -0000 BVK escribió: > On 7/23/07, adrian15 wrote: > >> I think that if grub2 is going to have scripting and so many new >> features we should take advantage of them and change the way computers >> do boot. >> >> #1) All Linux installers should set or reuse a ext2 partition next to >> the windows one as a /boot one where grub2 is installed. >> >> >> What are your thoughts about this idea? >> > > Can't grub2 merge menu.lst files from all grub2-readable partitions > and generate a menu dynamically? I dont know, but does this require > grub2 to load *all* filesystem modules on boot-up? > That's quite similar to how Super Grub Disk works when you try to boot an existing linux and it seeks for all the menu.lst. I am talking about changing the boot world. Having an unique boot partition might make things much simpler. Although I also think that if you loose this partition you are in trouble so there should be a backup of this partiton somewhere on the root partitions. :) adrian15