Re: passing options to grub in xen,openfirmware and efi

[Olaf Hering]

On Thu, Apr 23, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:

> What I do not like is the possibility to blindly set any internal
> variable (consider overriding of $prefix). I'd prefer to set variables
> in separate namespace, like grub.arg.XXX=YYY for XXX=YYY argument and
> let user figure out what to do with them.

You mean if booted with 'boot hd:,grub foo=bar' a 'grub.arg.foo=bar'
should be available? That sounds like a plan.

Olaf