Re: Some ideas about new features of grub

2009-07-11 Thread Michal Suchanek
2009/7/11 Bean : > On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 5:27 AM, BandiPat wrote: >> Actually Zenwalk provides os-prober as well.  The gentleman that provides >> the installer of our Grub2 uses os-prober to detect all OS's installed, so >> they may be added to the original grub.cfg.  Works very well, although no

Re: Some ideas about new features of grub

2009-07-11 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 02:53:13PM +0800, Bean wrote: > On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 5:27 AM, BandiPat wrote: > > Actually Zenwalk provides os-prober as well.  The gentleman that provides > > the installer of our Grub2 uses os-prober to detect all OS's installed, so > > they may be added to the original

Re: Configuration option to disable os-prober?

2009-07-11 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 09:19:12PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 07:31:21PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 04:38:23PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > Some people seem to want to disable os-prober for various reasons (e.g. > > > they have lots of test

Re: Some ideas about new features of grub

2009-07-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 06:20:13PM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote: > The other problem is that scripts like os-prober that use linux > filesystem code for probing filesystems destroy your data. > > Linux cannot mount journalled filesystems readonly. It always modifies > them. The extent of the modif

Re: Some ideas about new features of grub

2009-07-11 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Samstag, den 11.07.2009, 18:20 +0200 schrieb Michal Suchanek: > 2009/7/11 Bean : > > On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 5:27 AM, BandiPat wrote: > >> Actually Zenwalk provides os-prober as well. The gentleman that provides > >> the installer of our Grub2 uses os-prober to detect all OS's installed, so > >

Re: [PATCH] hidemenu fix

2009-07-11 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 01:26:50PM +0800, Bean wrote: > Hi, > > This patch moves the screen init code from reader to menu, so that > hidemenu would work as before. A minor side effect is that if grub.cfg > is not found, the "GNU GRUB" header would not be printed, but I guess > this is not an issue

Re: Some ideas about new features of grub

2009-07-11 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 07:32:36PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 06:20:13PM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote: > > The other problem is that scripts like os-prober that use linux > > filesystem code for probing filesystems destroy your data. > > > > Linux cannot mount journalled

Re: [PATCH] hidemenu fix

2009-07-11 Thread Bean
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 2:53 AM, Robert Millan wrote: > On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 01:26:50PM +0800, Bean wrote: >> Hi, >> >> This patch moves the screen init code from reader to menu, so that >> hidemenu would work as before. A minor side effect is that if grub.cfg >> is not found, the "GNU GRUB" hea