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From: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com>
To: grub-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Support for UEFI ESP in os-prober
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 20:56:00 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130605205600.75fa14f4@opensuse.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51AF5FB8.6060101@kiilerich.com>

В Wed, 05 Jun 2013 17:56:40 +0200
Mads Kiilerich <mads@kiilerich.com> пишет:

> On 05/31/2013 07:03 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> > Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> >
> >> I must say I'm generally disappointed with os-prober and have
> >> ideas to move away from it. I'll start another topic for it.
> >
> > I agree.  I would prefer adding an include command so grub.cfg could 
> > just do something like:
> >
> > include /boot/grub/grub.d/*.cfg
> >
> > and have an install procedure drop in one or more menu items instead 
> > of every os install or update rewriting the entire grub.cfg every time.
> 
> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/BootLoaderSpec/ describes 
> such a configuration structure, 

It is rather (intentionally) limited in functionality. For a start, it
explicitly excludes possibility to boot Windows, making transition from
os-prober impossible.

>                                   and 
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/grub2.git/plain/0362-blscfg-add-blscfg-module-to-parse-Boot-Loader-Specif.patch 
> implements it as a grub command.
> 
> /Mads
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-05 16:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-29 15:04 [RFC] Support for UEFI ESP in os-prober Andrey Borzenkov
2012-09-30 20:30 ` yannubuntu
2012-10-01 11:25 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-05-31 14:48   ` Andrey Borzenkov
2013-05-31 16:12     ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-05-31 17:03       ` Bruce Dubbs
2013-05-31 17:55         ` Chris Murphy
2013-06-05 15:56         ` Mads Kiilerich
2013-06-05 16:56           ` Andrey Borzenkov [this message]
2013-06-05 17:21           ` Bruce Dubbs
2013-06-05 17:58             ` Andrey Borzenkov
2013-06-05 18:43               ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-06-05 18:53                 ` Bruce Dubbs
2013-06-05 19:03                 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2013-06-05 19:29                   ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-06-05 17:51           ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
     [not found] <mailman.26139.1370458399.22519.grub-devel@gnu.org>
2013-06-06 15:33 ` Tom Davies

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