Use cases for GNU GRUB 2
Please be free to add new configurations with descriptions. Please follow style from other use cases.
One disk configuration
UseCases/OneDiskCoreEmbedded One disk with one partition for OS. Core stored before first partition.
UseCases/OneDiskCoreOnFilesystem One disk with one partition for OS. Core stored within partition.
Multiple disk configurations
UseCases/TwoDisksCoreEmbeddedToFirst Two disks on system, core embedded to first disk. Rest of GRUB files on second disk.
RAID
Networked booting
UseCases/PXEBoot Network card with PXE loads core and payload from network.
UseCases/BootFromDiskLoadOSFromNetwork Boots from local disk, loads OS from network.
USB and other peripheral
UseCases/Ubuntu Boot UBUNTU live "USB"
Other
Add any miscellaneous use cases not fitting to anything else.
UseCases/GPIO Blink LEDs to show boot status, choose menu options based on state of a switch