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Re: [RFC] grub-install: allow none or multiple install devices on PC BIO
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Andrei Borzenkov |
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Re: [RFC] grub-install: allow none or multiple install devices on PC BIOS |
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Sat, 13 Feb 2016 10:29:58 +0300 |
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12.05.2015 18:22, Michael Chang пишет:
> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 02:57:00PM +0300, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
>> В Tue, 12 May 2015 18:52:22 +0800
>> Michael Chang <address@hidden> пишет:
>>
>>> On Fri, May 08, 2015 at 09:53:41PM +0300, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
>>>> There are two main applications.
>>>>
>>>> 1. Omit install device to create generic image intended for chainloading
>>>> from other master loader. Such image can be put on any device (or file
>>>> system) and will still be able to find its $root. Currently even with
>>>> --no-bootsector grub-install optimizes image by skipping UUID search if
>>>> possible.
>>>>
>>
>> Actually I think it is useful for all platforms.
>
> As it works across all platform, os-prober should consider chanloading
> core images if possible rather than digging into grub configs. Is there
> any plan for that ?
>
At least on EFI it is not possible to chainload GRUB from /boot until it
supports multiboot; and even then it will be multiboot2, so it means
separate commands. We have enough issues with efi-specific linux loaders :(