Re: whereis grub shell ?

[Pavel Roskin]

On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 21:31 +0200, yoram bar haim wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 March 2008 14:02:13 Robert Millan wrote:
> > But it isn't the "grub shell" any
> 
> So a real grub-hsell functionality does not exist anymore ?

It depends on what you mean.

> I work on grub2 support in the restart menu of kde4 everything (parsing 
> grub.cfg and letting the user choose boot option) works except of really 
> settings the defualt option for next boot... I can modify grub.cfg but is 
> ugly. is there a good way to do this ?

In my opinion, modifying anything by directly accessing the filesystem
on a running OS is much, much uglier.

> on leggacy grub it is done simply by running "grub --batch" with pipe and 
> writing "savedefault --defualt=n" to the pipe, what can be done in grub2 ?

There is no "savedefault".  It hasn't been implemented yet.  And if it's
implemented, I would actually prefer that grub-emu is only allowed to do
it by the means of hostfs, not directly.

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin