GRUB

[Tony Arnold]

Vince,

On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 02:03 +0200, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> > Look at the PUPA's home page I just found in Google :
> > http://www.nongnu.org/pupa/
> > 
> > Among the goals they listed for GRUB-2, I can see a couple pretty
> > explicit and encouraging statements
> 
> I am looking at GRUB-2's wiki
> http://www.autistici.org/grub/moin.cgi/TodoList
> 
> and in their "to do" list, I can see :
> 
> "Add a fancy menu interface which utilizes the GraphicsMode extensively
> with many eye-candies. This is important to beat GRUB legacy."
> 
> Wow, can't wait to see some work done on this, some example screenshots
> of their work. Who knows, maybe it will be ready in time before the
> feature freeze of Breezy, and would have a complete graphical Ubuntu :
> GRUB, Kernel splash, GTk FB installer... yeahhh :o)))))))

BTW, there is a beta version of grub-2 in the universe repository for
Hoary. The description has a big warning saying it does not have all
it's functionality yet and use at your own risk. I would definitely try
this on a separate hard disk!

Regards,
Tony.
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