[plug] Intelligent Boot loader? Any advice?

[W.Kenworthy]

grub gives an error message about {...} not found, press any key which
drops you back to the menu.  test by mistyping the boot file (kernel)
name ... as I did last night :(

Partition mapping may be problematic though - I think grub may number
its partitions on what it finds at boot, so a workaround may be
necessary for this.


BillK


On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 13:26 +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 10:51 +0800, Jo! wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >  
> > This is my first post... thanks for you help!
> >  
> > I am pretty new at Linux so this question may be obviously simple.
> >  
> > I have the following situations:
> > 1) Multiple OS in different partitions.
> > 2) Partitions may or may not be available as they are removable.
> 
> Neither of those should pose any problems.
> 
> > 3) The Boot loader must have a list of different OS. Even if the user
> > select a unavailable OS, the boot loader will inteligently inform the
> > user that the OS is not available rather than die.
> 
> That might be more trouble, though. I think GRUB (the standard boot
> loader on most Linux distros now) should handle things fairly cleanly
> though, from memory... the best way to find out is to try it out.
>