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Feature Suggestions (3)
From: |
John Doe |
Subject: |
Feature Suggestions (3) |
Date: |
Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:49:54 -0400 |
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Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080505) |
I've used your bootloader for a long time and I must say that GRUB
legacy is one of the best pieces of software I have ever used. However,
this has only made me raise my expectations even higher. I'm not sure if
this would be the correct venue to report feature suggestions for GRUB
2, but I could find no other.
That aside, here are some features that I have longed for while
using GRUB legacy that I would enjoy seeing in GRUB 2:
*
Dummy Menu Entries* The GRUB menu is very customizable, and with the
splashimage and gfxmenu patches can be very pretty. Because of this, I
enjoyed making a boot menu with a title and blank spaces before the
operating system list and then another space before the halt and reboot
options I placed. However, since there is no option to make dummy menu
entries (the title) or to skip a line (the space) I would usually have
menu.lst something like this:
title Boot Menu #substitute for a title entry
title _ #substitute for a space/skip
title Linux OS
root (hdx,y)
title Another OS
root (hdx,z)
title _ #substitute for a skip/space
title Restart
reboot
title Shut Down
halt
Although my complaint is completely aesthetic, (it's not the end of the
world when I press enter on an underscore and get some ugly error screen
forcing me to press any key to return to my work of art), considering
your feature list for Google Summer of Code includes aesthetics, I think
implementing dummy entries and line skips could go a long way to making
a more attractive bootloader menu.
*Support for Fat32 Partitions* This is probably not a very important
feature request, but in my spare time I downloaded the AdvanceCD Linux
Distribution (http://advancemame.sourceforge.net/cd-readme.html) and
installed it into a small unused partition. Unfortunately, it formats a
partition installation fat32. So even though there is no bootloader,
even when I told GRUB the kernel and the initrd. I got error #12 or 13
(I do not remember which, if not 17), and when I went to a GRUB prompt
and entered root (hd0,5) #the installation partition# and the output is
"filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x83". If this error could be
avoided in GRUB 2.
*Boot CD Support* I use bootable CD's quickly, whether to install an
operating system, to repartition my hard drive, or fix errors without
needing to find some way of booting into the broken system. However, so
far as I know, GRUB legacy has no capability of booting from a CD/DVD
drive when installed on a hard drive. This is a slight nuisance as my
only options are to restart the system or use GRUB to load the Smart
Boot Manager to boot from the optical drive. (A how-to can be found
here:http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Chainloading_a_bootable_CD-ROM_from_GRUB.)
Thank you for reading this lengthy email (assuming you have). I
appreciate you spending your time reading my suggestions which very well
may mean nothing to you. If any one of these features made it into GRUB
2, I would be ecstatic!
- Feature Suggestions (3),
John Doe <=