RE: Fancy menu requirements

[Hollis Blanchard]

On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 19:51 +0100, Ernest Sales wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 15:16:25 -0500, "Jason Morganson" <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> 
> > Because of how important this feature will be to GRUB I wanted to put this
> up where everyone can change and comment on it.
> 
> Do you really think a boot manager needs graphics and soft fonts?

The Linux distributions believe this.

> I find text menus smart enough for this, the beauty of simplicity if you
> like.
> 
> On the other hand, what I would ask for is self-containment (code in first
> disc sector, or else in its own partition) and autodetect-and-config as a
> start point to further customization. I took a glance at GRUB's site, I am
> loosely following this list for a while, and can't yet figure if GRUB
> supports these features.

Yes, it does.

-Hollis