Anyone can program a boot manager like GRUB for N900 ?
 

Just want a boot manager like GRUB to choose which OS to boot. Maemo 5 PR1.3 or MeeGo 1.1

U-boot is not that perfect. Anyone can help to improve U-boot or program a new boot manager like GRUB ?

Thx.

Re: Anyone can program a boot mamger like GRUB for N900 ?
 

how about boot-menu?

Re: Anyone can program a boot mamger like GRUB for N900 ?
 

- Edit -
This post is wrong: when reading it, assume I am saying multiboot, rather than bootmenu.
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Bootmenu is worse than uboot. It flashes the NAND every time you change OSs. What I don't get is, what actual features do you have in GRUB or (insert other bootloader of preference) that UBoot fails to provide?

Re: Anyone can program a boot mamger like GRUB for N900 ?
 

In what way, ie what features are you missing?

Re: Anyone can program a boot mamger like GRUB for N900 ?
 

@Mentalist Traceur:
That's multiboot you are thinking of. Bootmenu doesn't flash anything, but I'm not sure how good it is for booting extra OS's, either.

Re: Anyone can program a boot mamger like GRUB for N900 ?
 

Thanks for the correction RobbieThe1st. I need to pay more attention to these things.

Re: Anyone can program a boot mamger like GRUB for N900 ?
 

Burg would be an intresting alternative.. if ported. Not sure if it would be possible.

Re: Anyone can program a boot manager like GRUB for N900 ?
 

U-boot is a good boot manager, I used it for years on the OpenMoko freerunner. It has a menu and is configurable: settings, scripts, environments are saved to a nand partition.

I think that u-boot for the n900 will receive more love in the next months, and hope it will become complete and mature to replace nolo entirely.

In the mean time you may replace boot.scr to switch between several OS, or (better) rebuild u-boot to change your default OS and provide scripts to boot meego, debian, ubuntu and so on.

For example my u-boot boots maemo as default os and debian if I interrupt it and type "run debian".

Having a "run meego" or a "run nitroid" is trivial.

Re: Anyone can program a boot manager like GRUB for N900 ?
 

so, we need to wait U-boot get improved.

But till now, I can still not see a multi boot menu for me to choose which OS to boot from.

Re: Anyone can program a boot manager like GRUB for N900 ?
 

uBoot more than fine. Just because you can't use it doesn't mean it's not the best solution to the problem.

Learn to use it.