Re: Some ideas about new features of grub

[Pavel Roskin]

Quoting Bean <address@hidden>:

> IIRC, os-prober is a collection of shell script to detect os, but grub
> already have them in util/grub.d. This method is based on linux, so
> you need to enter linux in order to update the menu. On the other
> hand, lua script generate the menu inside grub, there is no need to
> enter any os.

I imagine most distros would want tight control over what appears in  
the menu.  Nobody would want their distro appear last in the list.  So  
osdetect.lua is a great thing, but it's not for everyone.

> Another problem is the drive number. It's impossible to decide bios
> drive number from inside linux, so we can't insert the correct
> drivemap command required to boot DOS/Windows from secondary drive.
> This information must be gathered at boot time.

It should be possible to find the partition using uuid or a unique  
file.  drivemap accepts partitions as arguments (it did last time I  
checked).

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin