Re: [PATCH] File access library for lua

[Pavel Roskin]

On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 00:50 +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 06:10:36PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 17:27 +0800, Bean wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Some bug fix for osdetect.lua, it also detect windows 98/me, freedos,
> > > msdos and freebsd.
> > 
> > Why FressDOS and FressBSD?  I assume it's typos.  Why isn't Linux
> > capitalized?  MS-DOS is written with a dash.  "Windows Vista bootmgr"
> > should be "Windows Vista" and "Windows NT/2000/XP loader" should be
> > "Windows NT/2000/XP".  It's not like we are just booting the loaders.
> 
> But when we're booting a kernel (Linux) we just say that.  Shouldn't we
> be consistent and say "bootmgr" and "ntldr" too?

The difference is that we are using chainloader to boot Windows, so we
treat is as one system.  If we were loading ntldr from GRUB, then it
would be appropriate to mention it.

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin