Re: Any tutorial to configure grub menu interface ?

[J. Bakshi]

On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:58:09 +0100
Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko <address@hidden> wrote:

> Bean wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 1:02 PM, J. Bakshi <address@hidden>
> > wrote: 
> >> On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:52:41 +0100
> >> Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko <address@hidden> wrote:
> >>
> >>     
> >>> J. Bakshi wrote:
> >>>       
> >>>> On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:01:05 +0800
> >>>> Bean <address@hidden> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>         
> >>>>> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 10:41 PM, J. Bakshi <address@hidden>
> >>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>           
> >>>>>> I wonder if there is any tutorial to crate cool grub menu
> >>>>>> interface. Can we use the grub2 2009 summer project to get
> >>>>>> those fancy interfaces ?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>             
> >>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> There are actually two menu system. Colin has written a fancy
> >>>>> menu patch as part of gsoc project, you can still get the code
> >>>>> from http://grub.gibibit.com/, there are also some docs there.
> >>>>> It looks good, but a little slow, and some feature like edit
> >>>>> boot command hasn't been implemented.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Recently, I have rewritten the menu system and it's almost done
> >>>>> by now. The project is hosted at https://launchpad.net/burg,
> >>>>> you can also follow this post in ubuntu forum:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1248647
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I plans to add some doc on menu config soon.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>           
> >>>> Hello Bean,
> >>>>
> >>>> It is nice to know about your project. I hope it can be in main
> >>>> line grub soon. Eagerly waiting for that and also for your doc.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>         
> >>> Till now Bean ignored all our requests to work on merging these
> >>> changes in the mainline or experimental. Unless he collaborates on
> >>> merging there is nothing we can do.
> >>>       
> >> Bean, may I request you merge your great work in mainline grub2 ?
> >> A Lot of grub2 users like me are really interested to try your
> >> great work in  grub2. 
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > It's not that I don't merge it to mainline, but parts of my branch
> > is not considered appropriate for grub2. So someone can just pull my
> > branch, review it and merge whatever part they want.
> >
> >   
> Ok, then the next weekend I'll do the cherrypicking. This weekend I
> just have no time for it (I'm on regional ACM)
> 
> 

so grub2 users, be ready to enjoy some really cool menu interfaces with better 
control. Thanks a lot to you all developers to give us such a great boot loader.