Re: grub2 back to lilo ?

2010-05-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 08:02:22AM +0530, BVK Chaitanya wrote: > I tend to agree. IIRC, with grub-legacy (on debian), we could simply > add any user customizations at the end of the menu.lst (after auto > generated list markers) which would remain there even after > update-grub operations. Thus u

Re: grub2 back to lilo ?

2010-05-15 Thread Marc Haber
Hi, On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 08:11:27AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 08:02:22AM +0530, BVK Chaitanya wrote: > > I tend to agree. IIRC, with grub-legacy (on debian), we could simply > > add any user customizations at the end of the menu.lst (after auto > > generated list mar

Re: grub2 back to lilo ?

2010-05-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 09:21:36AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 08:11:27AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > Simplicity ... except when it broke. Which it did, all the time. Let's > > not follow the model of those marker comments! > > Just for the record, grub 0.x's method of

Re: grub2 back to lilo ?

2010-05-15 Thread BVK Chaitanya
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 08:02:22AM +0530, BVK Chaitanya wrote: >> With GRUB2 that simplicity is not there anymore. > > Simplicity ... except when it broke.  Which it did, all the time.  Let's > not follow the model of those marker comments! >

Re: grub2 back to lilo ?

2010-05-15 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 08:41:14AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > You weren't the one receiving the bug reports when it did ... Granted. Grub2 can use include files in its configuration, yes? Then it's much easier than with grub legacy. Greetings Marc -- --

Re: Adding support for top grub menu

2010-05-15 Thread Jarno Suni
2010/5/9 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko : > Jarno Suni wrote: >> 2010/5/9 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko : >> >> >>> I don't understand what you're exactly saying but if you install >>> os-prober grub will discover other OS in update-grub. >>> >> >> But if you use os-prober, I suppose

Re: grub2 back to lilo ?

2010-05-15 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
bc w wrote: > Hi > > I think the problem proposed by this article is very important. > > The article URL is > http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/7004/1/ > > http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/7004/2/ > > First of all this list is p