Re: Some GRUB ideas

[komputes <komputes@gmail.com>]

Hi Robert,

I had a few more ideas for GRUB that may be useful.

A way for the user to know which hard drives/partitions are available to 
the computer in a "(hd0,0)" format which can then be used in a menu.lst 
file. This would greatly save time and confusion in the grub 
configuration process. This would be like a devices.map, but way more 
useful. I would imagine it would look like this:

$ grub --pitty-da-foo #this command doesn't exist (...yet)
Checking disks...

                                 Mem  Used
(hd0)      /dev/sda
           (hd0,0)   /dev/sda1  50GB  25%
           (hd0,1)   /dev/sda2  50GB  25%

(hd1)   /dev/sdb
           (hd1,0)   /dev/sdb1  50GB  25%
           (hd1,1)   /dev/sdb2  50GB  25%


Something like that would be nice. Or at least a passing mention in 
menu.lst that Grub starts counting from 0 not 1 in its drive/partition 
designations--i.e. (hd0,1) = /dev/sda2, etc. That confuses a lot of 
newcommers to linux, who would appreciate a command that will help them 
select or at least see how to correctly transport hard disk "locations" 
from a shell to a menu.lst. I just thought I would bring this to the 
attention of GRUB developers to see if this can be included in an 
upcoming version/update.

-k

Robert Millan wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I'm one of the folks volunteering as mentors for this year's GRUB GSoC
> participation.  Okuji asked us to provide ideas and notify this list about
> them.
>
> Our full list of ideas is hosted at:
>
>   http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-soc.html
>
> The following have been added as new ideas for this year:
>
>   - USB support (UHCI + keyboard/storage drivers)
>   - ATA (finish pATA driver + SATA / AHCI)
>   - Accessing encrypted partitions (LUKS)
>   - Localisation infrastructure
>
> More details about them are available at the URL above.
>
>