Everything and the kitchen sink

[Phillip Susi]

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I recently had an incident that reminded me that while the grub rescue
shell is better than nothing when there's a problem, it often isn't
enough to troubleshoot and work around the error.  These days most
disks start the first partition at 1 MiB, so there is no need to keep
the core.img slim and trim, so it would be really nice to throw all of
the modules in there, so you can have a fully functional grub to help
troubleshoot when things go wrong.

Now I realize that I can manually build a ramdisk image to contain all
modules, and pass that to grub-mkimage, but then as soon as grub is
updated, and grub-install is re-run automatically, my changes would be
wiped out.

So I think what needs to happen is for grub-install to grow an
- --everything option where it would build the ramdisk and attach it
automatically.  Additionally there needs to be a conf file or
something where this could be enabled so that it will be applied when
grub is updated.  It may also be nice to have this enabled by default
when the embed area is detected to be large enough.

Thoughts?

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