Re: grub vs lilo

[Goran Koruga]

On Wed, Jan 31 2001, Kuno Woudt wrote:

Hiya,

> Dave Cinege <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > I completly disagree. Grub's conf file is simple and initutive and I've 
> > never
> > seen any type of boot menu for lilo. (No I don't mean holding the
> > tab key.)
> The boot menu for grub is nice for new users, but rather annoying if
> you reboot a lot - selecting an os using cursor keys is fairly slow
> compared to typing the name of the OS to boot (well, when you use two
> letter acronyms for all boot options ;) or is there a hotkey command
> for menu.lst I overlooked ?

I have hacked grub back in 0.4 days with something like this. I only press
the number corresponding to the boot entyr I wish to boot et voila. The
patch is rather trivial, however I don't know if it works if there are more
than 10 entries in your menu.lst. It would be trivial to add support for
that using keys A-Z (I didn't do this because one would have to consider the
effect of scrolling the menu entries if they don't fit on one screen and
because I only have at most 5 or 6 entries in menu.lst anyway). The patch
also displays only the relevant entries, that is those that can actually do
something (grub will always list as much as it can, regardless if those
entries do something or not). I don't know off top of my head if the patch
applies cleanly to current CVS version, but that is easy to fix.

Regards,
Goran

> Something else which I'd really like to see is something similar to
> LILO's "message" option.
> 
> -- kuno.
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