Mon, 11 Feb 2008

GRUB disturbs me

Something else that bothers me about Jordi's GRUB2 screen shot is that it is all localised.

I've had to assist people using foreign versions of Windows which had no way to present the English version of the interface. Sometimes I've been lucky enough to figure out the text but, just as often, I've had to shrug my shoulders and give up.

Which leads me to suggest that there should be some mechanism — it need not be the default, it need not even be displayed until a specific keypress occurs (or something) — to get an English version of the boot loader screens so you can assist someone knowing there is a common baseline.

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No so grubby.

Wanting to help along GRUB2 adoption as per Jordi's suggestion. I tried out apt-get install grub-pc.

I'm not so sure that a bugreport entitled Installing grub-pc achieves nothing would be so useful. Here is what seemed to happen:

eve:[~]% diff -u /boot/grub/menu.lst_backup_by_grub2_postinst /boot/grub/menu.lst
--- /boot/grub/menu.lst_backup_by_grub2_postinst        2008-02-09 18:59:46.000000000 +0000
+++ /boot/grub/menu.lst 2008-02-09 18:59:47.000000000 +0000
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 #
 # You can specify 'saved' instead of a number. In this case, the default entry
 # is the entry saved with the command 'savedefault'.
-default                saved
+default         0saved

 ## timeout sec
 # Set a timeout, in SEC seconds, before automatically booting the default entry
@@ -113,6 +113,11 @@

 ## ## End Default Options ##

+title		Chainload into GRUB 2
+root		(hd0,0)
+kernel		/boot/grub/core.img
+savedefault
+
 title		Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.24-1-686
 root		(hd0,0)
 kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-686 quiet root=/dev/hda1 ro resume=/dev/hda5 usbcore.autosuspend=1

Booting into the chain loaded GRUB2 and I get a nice prompt with no idea what to do next.

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