On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 02:19:14AM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 20:39 +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
With LUA, we can have a more user friendly interface. I like way rEFIt
works, it doesn't require configuration. At runtime, it detects os and
shows an icon for each of them. We can achieve similar goal using lua.
Of course, advanced user can write the menu manually, but for most
user, a smart auto-generated menu may be more appealing.
But we have grub-mkconfig for that. This is what distributions shipping
GRUB are using.
That's what distributions shipping GRUB2 are using. Fedora is totally
unaware of grub-mkconfig, so I have to rerun it every time I install a
new kernel.
grub-mkconfig won't pick up all filesystems, mounted and unmounted.
It will if you install os-prober. I think os-prober is only available on
debian yet, but it's not debian-specific.
And let's not forget about recovery disks. That's where lua would
really shine.
Yes, it's a nice feature. But it's not what most people will use GRUB for.