Boot to Windows/Mac
Maybe during Installation, Ask if they've got other OS' installed, If they select yes, search the Grub file for OS' by generic names (Windows, Mac)
Then list the Found selections (EG/ Windows 7 recovery & Windows 7) and ask which one is the right one (Repeat for Mac if Mac is found also) & also would require modification of the Grub file after grub is installed.
It is possible to code this feature.
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I can definitely agree, as a multi-OS user, this would help a lot in relieving some basic problems that sometimes occur with Grub. Would be a nice bit of extra polish for those users dealing with multiple operating systems and the accompanying trouble and finagling that often accompanies such.
Well,i already use something like this. Not with grub,but with help from the built in UEFI firmware of the device and using the --bootnext option of efibootmgr.
You can add entries to laptop/desktop's EFI boot menu using efibootmgr.
And if your windows entry's bootnum is 0002,simply reboot to windows with something like this,
sudo efibootmgr -n 0002 && sudo reboot
I find this easier for me than current Grub,AFAIK there's no such BootNext option for grub and it might need an update-grub.
