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From: Chris Murphy <lists@colorremedies.com>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Support for UEFI ESP in os-prober
Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 13:55:45 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <300479AA-2DDE-4CAC-BA0F-4AAE53F2C93B@colorremedies.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51A8D7E6.8030501@gmail.com>

On May 31, 2013, at 1:03 PM, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs@gmail.com> 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.

Or for GRUB to be a lot more dynamic by scanning the EFI System partition for bootloaders it recognizes, an effectively creates a grub.cfg on the fly based on ESP contents, and NVRAM contents. I think the present behavior is unreliable, and makes GRUB a very narrowly useful boot manager. So the question is, does GRUB want to grow into a more capable boot manager rather than just a collection of bootloaders for different OS's.


Chris Murphy

  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-31 17:55 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 [this message]
2013-06-05 15:56         ` Mads Kiilerich
2013-06-05 16:56           ` Andrey Borzenkov
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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