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В Thu, 12 Dec 2013 17:13:13 +0100
"Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko" <phcoder@gmail.com> пишет:

> - Many platforms add their own command line arguments even if user didn't
> ask for it. Those shouldn't interfere. In your patch root=sda1 from xen
> will either be lost or will clobber GRUB root.

My be we could adopt current Linux convention and prefix variables for
GRUB with grub.foo=xxx (stripping "grub." prefix). I do not know whether
it could have compatibility implications for current code though.

The reasoning is, it would allow overwriting variables very early
without need for scripting that is available only after normal is
loaded.