Re: Some GRUB ideas

2008-04-10 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 09:57 -0400, komputes wrote: > You're probably right, although the focus of my question/feature request > is on the (hd0,0) syntax and not on the device file. I was thinking it > could prompt devices.map for the drive names. Grub can't use /dev/sda1 > style syntax, you are

Re: Some GRUB ideas

2008-04-09 Thread komputes
You're probably right, although the focus of my question/feature request is on the (hd0,0) syntax and not on the device file. I was thinking it could prompt devices.map for the drive names. Grub can't use /dev/sda1 style syntax, you are correct, and I can't think of a logical workaround other t

Re: Some GRUB ideas

2008-04-07 Thread Colin D Bennett
komputes wrote: Something like that would be nice. Or at least a passing mention in menu.lst that Grub starts counting from 0 not 1 in its drive/partition designations--i.e. (hd0,1) = /dev/sda2, etc. That confuses a lot of newcommers to linux, who would appreciate a command that will help them

Re: Some GRUB ideas

2008-04-07 Thread komputes
Hi Robert, I had a few more ideas for GRUB that may be useful. A way for the user to know which hard drives/partitions are available to the computer in a "(hd0,0)" format which can then be used in a menu.lst file. This would greatly save time and confusion in the grub configuration process. T

Some GRUB ideas

2008-03-21 Thread Robert Millan
Hi there, I'm one of the folks volunteering as mentors for this year's GRUB GSoC participation. Okuji asked us to provide ideas and notify this list about them. Our full list of ideas is hosted at: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-soc.html The following have been added as new ideas for