[lynch]

This is a handy little tool:Super Grub Disk
(Merry Christmas, saikee )

[saikee]

It appears to me that it is just a fancy way of using the standard Grub. I have already had Grub in over 10 partitions doing various odd duties.

All the claimed features (the one I am not 100% sure is the change of the keyboard) are standard facilities available in the existing Grub.

I have no idea where the "Super" is for but it is nice know another nutty is playing around with it. That means I am not alone.

Happy Xmas everybody.

[adrian15_sgd]

New features non related to standard grub to come

• Variables support

• findconfig command (rewritten)

• call and llac command. (For putting a menu inside another and come back.)

• knoppix boot options in menues

More details about Knoppix integration

If you think about another useful feature please tell it.

adrian15

P.D.: I will be offline till 8 January but you can subscribe meanwhile to the mailing list.

[adrian15_sgd]

Super meaning.

I forgot.

Super means that you don't have to type any command to use Super Grub Disk and that you can restore Grub on MBR AUTOmatically.

adrian15

[lynch]

Wow. Hi, adrian15. Welcome to TSG.

[saikee]

Welcome Adrian15_sgd

I suppose Grub can be improved on in various ways. The "find" and "configfile" commands in Grub work reasonably well for a boot loader I would have thought.

Knoppix V4 has Grub built into it though I have never tried it myself but it is only a couple of minutes ( 4 lines of instructions) to build the latest Grub into any distro. That I have tried in Linux and BSD. I respect Knoppix family sticking with Lilo which I also use. I don't change the original boot loader unless there is something I want and it can't deliver.

GNU/Grub web page says Grub Legacy is no longer supported and Grub2 is the new generation of Grub so new development should really concentrated on the Grub 2.

I can well imagine the standard Grub can be upgraded to a more mature mini operating system if there is a demand for it. As it currently stands a Grub floppy plus a Live CD should enable us to make any Linux system bootable.

[adrian15_sgd]

Originally Posted by saikee

Welcome Adrian15_sgd

I suppose Grub can be improved on in various ways. The "find" and "configfile" commands in Grub work reasonably well for a boot loader I would have thought.

The problem about find is that it doesn't store its results to any variable so... you need to read the results in order to make something usable with them.

So... this leads not to automatisation.

Originally Posted by saikee

Knoppix V4 has Grub built into it though I have never tried it myself but it is only a couple of minutes ( 4 lines of instructions) to build the latest Grub into any distro.

I tried last Knoppix V4 and it worked with isolinux (in live cd I mean), are you meaning hd install instead of live cd ?

Originally Posted by saikee

GNU/Grub web page says Grub Legacy is no longer supported and Grub2 is the new generation of Grub so new development should really concentrated on the Grub 2.

Grub2 works with a file called grub2.cfg and has many changes in its structure that makes it incompatible, in my opinnion, with Grub Legacy. With Grub Legacy it is needed, in my opinnion, a tool that automatises Restore of Grub in MBR and help us boot whatever os we have in the computer.

I think this tool is: Super Grub Disk.

As I want to work it with the most used Linux / Unix OS boot loader, today, I have to base it in Gnu Grub Legacy. In a future, I will be very happy to work in Grub2.

Originally Posted by saikee

I can well imagine the standard Grub can be upgraded to a more mature mini operating system if there is a demand for it. As it currently stands a Grub floppy plus a Live CD should enable us to make any Linux system bootable.

It is very interesting what you're telling... A Grub floppy plus a Live CD. You CAN make bootable a Linux system with only Super Grub Disk and its feature: Restore Grub on MBR automatically.

But it is very interesting because I am working on merging a live cd (knoppix) and Super Grub Disk so that SGD is included by default into any live cd and that Restoring your system to the previous state (before the n-esim reinstall of XP) is included into any linux installation cd or live cd.

Well, that's all. Hope to have myselft development news back from Christhmas holidays.

adrian15