grub's "Hacker's guide"

2005-10-29 Thread E Leibovich
I downloaded grub's source and tried to begin "hacking" around. I couldn't find my hands and legs. Is there some guide for the beginner helping a beginner "hacker" to alter grub a bit. If there isn't can you please answer my few small questions? (1) Is grub written in C or Asm? If so what's the pr

Re: Automatic backup with grub

2005-10-27 Thread E Leibovich
Do you suggest me to run a script from linux that will make grub run windows after 10 times? I ment that the system will run windows (possibly XP) 10 times, and then run linux once. Altering grub from XP is not so simple, and exept relying on the XP to recover itself (IE switch to "boot from linux"

Re: Automatic backup with grub

2005-10-27 Thread E Leibovich
As I'm planning to use it as a recovery console I prefer loading linux won't be dependable of loading windows, but that it'll be loaded on its on each week or each 10 boots. It seems to me that grub requires a very small patch in order to make partitionX loaded 10 times and then to go back to defau

Automatic backup with grub

2005-10-27 Thread E Leibovich
Goal: Make the computer load a linux system every certain amount of times, this system would restoe from backup other system installed on a different partition.Reason: When untechnical users (aka my little brother at my father's house) are using theĀ  windows system they tend to ruin it (installing