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Idea #25206: New Bootloader!

bug This idea is a duplicate of Idea #21: Professional-looking bootloader.
Written by bschneck1955 the 24 Jun 10 at 03:36. Category: Usability. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: Not an idea
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I find the current Grub Bootloader boring with too much text. I would rather go right to login with a multi boot system with graphical interface. Skip a step at start up.
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Solution #1: Grub Update
Written by bschneck1955 the 24 Jun 10 at 03:36.
I would like to see the Grub Menu more graphical and integrated with the login screen. So instead of a text menu if other OS's are used you would have logos for Ubuntu and others to login. Especially for multi boot systems. Or,if you just have Ubuntu installed, the login screen will have an option to install another OS. Just have to figure out how to override Windows boot loader as the default. Apple did it with Boot Camp.
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Solution #2: Hide uncommon options in a extra menu
Written by Avantarius the 25 Jul 10 at 11:31.
The GRUB menu is completely cluttered up with multiple kernel versions, recovery modes and memtest, which you rarely will ever use.

Why not hide all this extra options in a separate menu, which is accessible by a special key like i.e. F10?

So for a dualboot system you would simply have:

* Ubuntu 10.04
* Windows 7
Press F10 for advanced options

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lvxferre wrote on the 22 Jul 10 at 22:59
This idea is somewhat like Burg project - a Grub fork with eye-candy. I think the boot doesn't need so much, since if you're looking to the boot enough time to eye-candy matter, something is horribly wrong.

The best improvements I can think in GNU/Linux boot are:

Branching - already made with Burg. If you have more than one option for an OS, all of them go to the same entry. If you want to run a specific kernel, you select the OS entry, it branches and you select the kernel you want. This helps letting a clean boot menu, so no newbie panic "which one I choose?".

*A nice, flexible yet simple GUI editor to Grub menu. Let's face it - Grub is a powerful piece of good software, but it's a pain to configure. Yes, even Grub Legacy. Yes, even for the power users. And its default configurations, like cluttering the boot menu with LOTS of options, almost begs "edit me!".


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