On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 02:19:14AM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 20:39 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > > > With LUA, we can have a more user friendly interface. I like way rEFIt > > > works, it doesn't require configuration. At runtime, it detects os and > > > shows an icon for each of them. We can achieve similar goal using lua. > > > Of course, advanced user can write the menu manually, but for most > > > user, a smart auto-generated menu may be more appealing. > > > > But we have grub-mkconfig for that. This is what distributions shipping > > GRUB are using. > > That's what distributions shipping GRUB2 are using. Fedora is totally > unaware of grub-mkconfig, so I have to rerun it every time I install a > new kernel. > > grub-mkconfig won't pick up all filesystems, mounted and unmounted.
It will if you install os-prober. I think os-prober is only available on debian yet, but it's not debian-specific. > And let's not forget about recovery disks. That's where lua would > really shine. Yes, it's a nice feature. But it's not what most people will use GRUB for. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all." _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel