From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1CydZm-0001U0-EM for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Feb 2005 17:11:18 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CydZg-0001QW-2i for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Feb 2005 17:11:12 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CydZY-0001NC-RK for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Feb 2005 17:11:06 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CydZY-0001LS-4L for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Feb 2005 17:11:04 -0500 Received: from [145.74.66.11] (helo=mail-cn.han.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CydJQ-0001tg-7C for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Feb 2005 16:54:24 -0500 Received: from vscan-cn.han.nl (venus.han.nl [145.74.65.6]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD70692D6 for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2005 22:54:23 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail-cn.han.nl ([145.74.66.11]) by vscan-cn.han.nl (venus.han.nl [145.74.65.6]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 08157-02 for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2005 22:54:22 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail1.han.nl (mail1.han.nl [145.74.103.11]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1CD68CE4 for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2005 22:54:22 +0100 (CET) Received: from marco.marco-g.com (mgerards.xs4all.nl [82.92.27.129]) by mail1.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0AF1C045 for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2005 22:54:22 +0100 (CET) Mail-Copies-To: metgerards@student.han.nl To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <20050207121011.GC1380@mjk.myfqdn.de> <42077EA1.5090403@list.ru> <87is54tgum.fsf@marco.marco-g.com> <20050207232414.GG1380@mjk.myfqdn.de> <42089381.4040302@list.ru> <20050208205649.GG5907@mjk.myfqdn.de> From: Marco Gerards Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 21:54:30 +0000 In-Reply-To: <20050208205649.GG5907@mjk.myfqdn.de> (Marc-Jano Knopp's message of "Tue, 8 Feb 2005 21:56:49 +0100") Message-ID: <87vf92k99l.fsf@marco.marco-g.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new (2.2.0) at vscan-cn.han.nl Subject: Re: [Suggestion] LILO-like direct menu item access && scripting 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: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 22:11:14 -0000 Marc-Jano Knopp writes: > Still, no-one has told me yet why implementing a LILO menu mode is a > problem. Is it a technical problem? Then refactor your code. ;-) Is > it an ergonomical problem, does it introduce something the user does > not expect? For me that would be: 1) GRUB is not lilo. It can have similar features, but that does not mean it should work perfectly the same. 2) Who will work on this? I won't write lilo menu mode, that's for sure :). GRUB is really modular, you could just write a module for this, I guess. Even if it would be written, it won't automatically mean it is what we want (see #1). 3) Why writing more code, even a new menu, if it can be perfectly added to the current menu? -- Marco