From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1ODySi-0005bi-W7 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 May 2010 07:26:21 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=49830 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ODySf-0005Vg-7p for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 May 2010 07:26:19 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ODyQV-0007JH-2j for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 May 2010 07:24:04 -0400 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.154]:22984) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ODyQU-0007J0-R4 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 May 2010 07:24:02 -0400 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id e12so2181626fga.12 for ; Mon, 17 May 2010 04:24:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :x-enigmail-version:content-type; bh=C5MSIsx6O9SbuSzzqOuWoBFUbToC23izmNAI9h2JRv4=; b=RKxIYX4uqoeHdpT27txhioLlLoV4Y0erNMy7yMd18i3GBBST5egxYTrTfcWVzGHqEn NJ+6rVsrWicTSR322ugf14IeXCLCfTBrcdjfu7Hp2HFfgQ50fgnsADj8Qp7VSKMfV3ee k2Lin45A2kQVxL1mIoXwm1NmDlobppPHEedX8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type; b=NJ+Evz/MsT2LEqOCTiSmhHbdIi/NaxD1sF59j6AHIyKJH5xCea+46B/z9lMi1Gxev4 /SwuMzxoiymhvPsq2XBfGO3C8tbY7X3nuJfVY+Hd4IqsKn8EoebM9kBhf3CgfC7Z4BHW afdDG6vdmbrBg/1Ulqe8BzS20HySuunDFcoZ8= Received: by 10.87.69.8 with SMTP id w8mr8346545fgk.58.1274095440783; Mon, 17 May 2010 04:24:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from debian.bg45.phnet (hg-public-dock-35-dhcp.ethz.ch [82.130.80.35]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 21sm7252090fkx.10.2010.05.17.04.23.59 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 17 May 2010 04:23:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4BF12748.3050803@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 13:23:52 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?VmxhZGltaXIgJ8+GLWNvZGVyL3BoY29kZXInIFNlcmJpbmVua28=?= User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20091109) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GNU GRUB References: <20100515071117.GG21862@riva.ucam.org> <20100517104030.GA6872@riva.ucam.org> In-Reply-To: <20100517104030.GA6872@riva.ucam.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig596CFC36CFA3F2AB1DA2B8D0" X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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 11:26:19 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig596CFC36CFA3F2AB1DA2B8D0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 01:41:09PM +0530, BVK Chaitanya wrote: > =20 >> On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Colin Watson w= rote: >> =20 >>> On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 08:02:22AM +0530, BVK Chaitanya wrote: >>> =20 >>>> With GRUB2 that simplicity is not there anymore. >>>> =20 >>> Simplicity ... except when it broke. Which it did, all the time. Le= t's >>> not follow the model of those marker comments! >>> =20 >> Given the GRUB script capabilities, we can get this simply by adding >> >> include $prefix/custom.cfg >> >> or similar to grub.cfg. >> =20 > > I could support that. It might be simpler than expecting people to edi= t > /etc/grub.d/40_custom and re-run update-grub. > > =20 This is a good and acceptable possibility. Just keep in mind that it has to be #!/bin/sh echo <