* multi-boot
@ 2014-06-13 16:14 Gene Czarcinski
2014-07-23 7:38 ` multi-boot Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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From: Gene Czarcinski @ 2014-06-13 16:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: The development of GRUB 2
In second 5.3 of the GNU GRUB 2.00 manual, there is a statement
"Currently autogenerating config files for multi-boot environments
depends on os-prober and has several shortcomings."
I agree. Os-prober and the way it works with 30_os-prober is fragile at
best and sometimes produces incorrect configurations.
Personally, I use a variation of the manually configured option
described in section 5.3: I install a very small system and then use
/etc/grub.d/40_custom to provide my multi-boot options ... mostly by
chainloading configfile.
In section 5.3, there is also mention of "fixing it is scheduled for the
next release" and "it" refers to os-prober. OK, what is the story? Is
anything being done to improve easy configuration for multi-boot?
Just what is the status of using/depending-on os-prober?
Some distributions such as SUSE, Fedora, RHEL, Ubuntu (?) believe that
users want some type of auto-config which enables them to bootup their
old systems when a new install replaces the MBR and points to this newly
install system.
Comments?
Gene
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* Re: multi-boot
2014-06-13 16:14 multi-boot Gene Czarcinski
@ 2014-07-23 7:38 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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From: Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko @ 2014-07-23 7:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: The development of GNU GRUB
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On 13.06.2014 18:14, Gene Czarcinski wrote:
> In second 5.3 of the GNU GRUB 2.00 manual, there is a statement
> "Currently autogenerating config files for multi-boot environments
> depends on os-prober and has several shortcomings."
>
> I agree. Os-prober and the way it works with 30_os-prober is fragile at
> best and sometimes produces incorrect configurations.
>
> Personally, I use a variation of the manually configured option
> described in section 5.3: I install a very small system and then use
> /etc/grub.d/40_custom to provide my multi-boot options ... mostly by
> chainloading configfile.
>
> In section 5.3, there is also mention of "fixing it is scheduled for the
> next release" and "it" refers to os-prober. OK, what is the story? Is
> anything being done to improve easy configuration for multi-boot?
>
"it" does not refer to os-prober but to autogeneration. It's not that
easy that's why it was postponed. The main problem is to avoid infinite
recursion.
> Just what is the status of using/depending-on os-prober?
>
> Some distributions such as SUSE, Fedora, RHEL, Ubuntu (?) believe that
> users want some type of auto-config which enables them to bootup their
> old systems when a new install replaces the MBR and points to this newly
> install system.
>
> Comments?
>
> Gene
>
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