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Re: menu enchancement
From: |
Marco Gerards |
Subject: |
Re: menu enchancement |
Date: |
Fri, 10 Sep 2004 21:24:22 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) |
"Yoshinori K. Okuji" <address@hidden> writes:
> I've implemented some important features in the menu interface. That is,
> timeout and booting. Please test it. It should be now possible to boot
> an OS from the menu interface.
I noticed (I love the commit-grub mailinglist :)). I will test it on
both PC and PPC.
> However, there are still several missing features which can be found in
> GRUB Legacy:
[...]
> - Saving a boot entry
Was this possible on GRUB Legacy? How does this work?
> - Coloring (this is useless, IMHO)
I agree.
> - Graphical interface
I hope the user interface will be modular some way. Of course this
means I am willing to work on this.
> - Support for different geometries
[...]
> Probably support for different geometries is difficult, because the
> current code assumes that the screen is at least 80x25. If you want to
> support smaller one, you need to adjust the messages as well as the
> hardcoded coordinates.
This is something that is important to me. The console on the
powerbook I have is a lot bigger than 80x25. So this is on my
personal todo already.
> Next, I will work on editing a boot entry and password support.
Cool!
Thanks,
Marco
- menu enchancement, Yoshinori K. Okuji, 2004/09/10
- Re: menu enchancement,
Marco Gerards <=