[grub #75] Directories to sort boot procedures in the menu

[anonymous]

Reporter: anonymous GNU fan
Summary: Directories to sort boot procedures in the menu
Version: 0.93
Type: feature request

Message:
I think it would be interesting for GRUB to be capable of manage directories in 
the menu to sort different boot procedures in a tree style. As far as I know, 
all entries defined in the configuration file are displayed in the menu as a 
list, there is no way, at the moment, to classify those entries.

For instance, it would be nice if we can have all different boot procedures of 
the same operating system in a directory entry in the menu, then classified by 
initialization method (run level), stability, hardware support...

Although I don't feel prepared to submit a patch to implement this feature I 
have been browsing by the source code and, if I'm not wrong, the changes would 
affect "stage2.c", the definition of the structure of the configuration file 
and some distinction between directories and boot procedures in the user 
interface. Maybe something in the line of markup languages would be adequate 
for the new structure of the configuration file.

Finally, I think this feature would complete a good menu interface for a first 
release of GRUB, I suppose, GRUB 1.0. I hope you GRUB's developers will 
consider this feature worth to implement.

Thanks for reading,
good job with the GRand Unified Bootloader!


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