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Re: booting another system from running linux (kexec)
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Marco Gerards |
Subject: |
Re: booting another system from running linux (kexec) |
Date: |
Fri, 24 Sep 2004 09:01:19 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) |
Johan Rydberg <address@hidden> writes:
> Tomas Ebenlendr <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> : Scripting and dhcp are both issues that we want in grub2. [...]
>
> Have there been any discussion on how the scripting language will look
> like? Will it be a simple language, specific to GRUB2, or will it
> some other language be re-used.
No, there was not much discussion about this.
> I would love to see a powerful scripting language, something like
> Scheme. But I'm not sure how usefull it would be. Scheme is a very
> simple, but yet powerful language that can very well be used for
> scripting. I'm not sure, though, that it fits into the context of
> GRUB2.
IMHO something bash-like would be the best. Everyone knows these kind
of languages. And the config file will look a lot like the one of
GRUB Legacy.
That is the problem of scheme, most people don't know it. For me it
is important that someone who wants a simple scripting feature don't
have to learn a completely new language. I assume most uses of GRUB
are not programmers.
Thanks,
Marco