From: Marco Gerards <mgerards@xs4all.nl>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] memdisk plus lnxboot extension
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:48:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877ii1sza5.fsf@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ca0f59980801212025l719a6f00rff20417ba3022328@mail.gmail.com> (bean123ch@gmail.com's message of "Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:25:49 +0800")
Bean <bean123ch@gmail.com> writes:
[...]
> 2. Easy to modify
> users may not know how to create core.img, but modifying files in a,
> say, tar or cpio archive is very easy. They can do simple tasks like
> replacing splash image without too much knowledge of grub2.
It seems easier, but isn't. First of all, if people want to use GRUB,
they have to learn how to use it. It is not difficult.
More importantly, when doing the manually, people might forget modules
which are required as a dependancy. For example fshelp.mod.
--
Marco
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-23 8:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-29 9:05 [PATCH] memdisk plus lnxboot extension Bean
2007-12-30 13:48 ` Robert Millan
2008-01-20 23:24 ` Robert Millan
2008-01-22 4:25 ` Bean
2008-01-22 13:57 ` Robert Millan
2008-01-22 16:22 ` Bean
2008-01-22 16:51 ` Robert Millan
2008-01-22 17:17 ` Bean
2008-01-22 19:53 ` Robert Millan
2008-01-23 8:54 ` Marco Gerards
2008-01-23 16:18 ` Bean
2008-01-23 19:01 ` Bean
2008-01-23 19:14 ` Robert Millan
2008-01-23 19:24 ` Bean
2008-01-23 20:15 ` Robert Millan
2008-01-23 21:04 ` Bean
2008-01-23 21:15 ` Robert Millan
2008-01-24 3:40 ` Bean
2008-01-24 11:32 ` Robert Millan
2008-01-24 11:49 ` Bean
2008-01-24 14:25 ` Robert Millan
2008-01-24 14:57 ` Bean
2008-01-24 15:16 ` Robert Millan
2008-01-24 16:55 ` Robert Millan
2008-01-24 17:04 ` Bean
2008-01-24 17:21 ` Robert Millan
2008-01-24 18:06 ` Marco Gerards
2008-01-24 21:23 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2008-01-23 19:10 ` Robert Millan
2008-01-23 8:48 ` Marco Gerards [this message]
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