Re: [RFC] Support for UEFI ESP in os-prober

[Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com>]

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В Wed, 05 Jun 2013 20:43:58 +0200
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko <phcoder@gmail.com> пишет:

> On 05.06.2013 19:58, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> > В Wed, 05 Jun 2013 12:21:54 -0500
> > Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs@gmail.com> пишет:
> > 
> >> Mads Kiilerich wrote:
> >>> 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, 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.
> >>
> >> Although that's a good start, it seems a little too specific.  What I 
> >> had in mind would be the equivalent to the source command in bash.
> > 
> > grub already has "source" command.
> > 
> >>                                                                    For 
> >> example,
> >>
> >> if condition; then
> >>    include (hd0,3)/grub/custom/themes/themeA.cfg
> >> else
> >>    include (hd0,2)/boot/grub/themes/themeB.cfg
> >> fi
> >>
> >> # Get menuentries
> >> include /boot/grub/grub.d/*.cfg
> >>
> > 
> > Implementing full-fledged globbing in grub is probably overkill; adding
> > "source_dir" command looks more doable. Something like
> > 
> We already have globbing.

Ehh .. you mean that

for i in /boot/grub/grub.d/*.cfg; do
  source $i
done

already works?

>                           Trouble with this approach is that ->dir
> method may be slow or (especially on network systems) absent. It should
> not be relied upon unless absolutely necessary.
> > source_dir --suffix .cfg /boot/grub/grub.d 
> > 
> > Any takers? :)
> > 
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> 
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