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

[Andrey Borzenkov]

В Wed, 05 Jun 2013 17:56:40 +0200
Mads Kiilerich <address@hidden> 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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