A simpler and yet more flexible bootloader.

[edbarx]

It is an idea that can make the GRUB bootloader simpler to configure when it is used to chainload other GRUB bootloaders.

The idea is extremely simple:
After loading and displaying menu.lst, the bootloader can be instructed to load other menu files. This can be done by adding another command. The necessary code is almost already written.

The advantage of this method is that one can use only one partition for GRUB. The currently implemented GRUB, may require more than one partition for chainloading.

[gnudude]

You lost me.....

[edbarx]

If GRUB is made capable of loading any menu file, there will be the advantage of having chainloading without the need of separate partitions.

GRUB would load menu.lst which would invoke menu1.lst, menu2.lst, etc. menu.lst would contain the commands to load menu1.lst, menu2.lst, etc on menu selection.

[BioTube]

I've seen this done before with GRUB.

[bernie_d]

This is already part of grub. The command is configfile.

13.3.6 configfile
— Command: configfile file

Load file as a configuration file.

[bernie_d]

Note that configfile doesn't chainload, it just uses a different menu (which can be named whatever you like).

You can also chainload a different instance of grub from grub, if you've installed the grub mbr on more than one partition.

[jtodd]

After loading and displaying menu.lst, the bootloader can be instructed to load other menu files.

SuperGrubDisk does that.