Hi, Here are some of my ideas about the new features of grub.
Move kernel to a module. This make it possible to relocate the kernel. For example, we can use it to move grub-pc to upper memory, and free conventional memory for use by real mode os such as MS-DOS. grub can resides in memory even after os take overs, and we can invoke it through interrupt hooks. LUA integration. LUA is quite powerful, it's more suitable to do complicated task than sh script. For example, we can use it to detect os at runtime, implement simple commands, or draw the graphic menu. Read/Write file system support We can implement two kind of fs drivers. The boot time driver is read-only, but after entering normal mode, we can optionally load another driver for write support. This approach has been used by EFI. For example, it has a default FAT driver, but you can also load an extended FAT driver later. Disk emulation. Now that it has drivemap command, we can extended it to map hard disk or cdrom image file, roughly equivalent to the memdisk of syslinux. -- Bean _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
