Re: [PATCH] update-grub for Cygwin

[Christian Franke]

Robert Millan wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 09:46:03PM +0200, Christian Franke wrote:
>   
> > Here a more generic version which allows to specifiy windows system dirs 
> > by /etc/default/grub:GRUB_WINDOWS_DIRS.
> >
> > Defaults to current SYSTEMDRIVE on Cygwin, and nothing on other OS.
> >
> > Christian
> >
> > 2008-08-04  Christian Franke  <address@hidden>
> >
> >         * conf/common.rmk: Add `10_windows' to `update-grub_SCRIPTS'.
> >         * util/grub.d/10_windows.in: New file.
> >         * util/update-grub.in: Add export of GRUB_WINDOWS_DIRS.
> >     
>
> Why is this needed?  Can't we do something like 'grub-probe -t device c:/ntldr'
> or so?
>
>   

It is not needed for standard installations with ntldr on SYSTEMDRIVE (C:).
The ability to specify GRUB_WINDOWS_DIRS is added to support 
non-standard installations.
It also allows to use 10_windows on other OS if os-prober is not available.

Christian