Re: Acer arcade instantOn and grub

[adrian15]

address@hidden escribió:
> > when laptop is new (read "when you haven't overridden window's bootloader"), 
> > pressing the normal power on button causes a normal boot sequence, but pressing the 
> > arcade button causes a different boot sequence.
A different boot sequence.
> > i don't really want to restore windows boot loader,
When you said before a different boot sequence did you mean that it
restores the windows boot loader or that it loads it from nowhere
instead of reading the disk... or what?

> > so: is there a way to replicate this job with grub or grub2?
I do not know.

> > for any further info please ask.
>
> Is this information stored somehow?  So how can the bootloader
> determine what is done?  In that case you can use scripting in GRUB 2
> to make use of this information.  It can't be done yet, but surely
> GRUB 2 can be modified to use this.
>
> --
> Marco
>
> thanks for you answer, marco
>
> follows a more deep description of the system
>
> the original system uses a modified grub 0.93 chainloaded by ntldr.
> the modifications of grub are released, but i can't replicate them on grub 0.97.
When you talk about this original system... this has nothing to do with
the arcade button, isn't it ?

Or is this code supposed to activate a fallback option (not the default
option but default+1 option) ?

Can you send a patch (differences from grub 0.93 and grub 0.93-modified)
so that I can try to apply to my own fork of grub 0.97?

Thank you.

adrian15