Re: Can Grub2 boot Windows 98 i.e. Can Grub2 boot SCO Unix

[Andrey Borzenkov]

В Mon, 04 Mar 2013 19:02:03 +0100
GervanDijck <address@hidden> пишет:

> I have the same problem with SCO Unix 5.05 Eb : Grub Legacy has no 
> problems and I can boot SCO Unix.
> 
> With Centos 6.3 no problems and I can boot SCO Unix.
> 
> Chris Murphy mailed me and  did ask who in godsname does use SCO Unix ? 
>   I do not like this mentality : the Grand Unified Bootlaoder should be 
> able to probe on old OS's , detect them and configure them in 
> /boot/grub2/grub.cfg or (old version) in /boot/grub/config.
> 

As long as you are the only one having SCO installed you are the only
one able to write or debug code to support it.

> In Fedora 18 running mkconfig-grub2 -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg the problem 
> still exsists and there is no way  or possibility booting SCO Unix.
> 

Which problem? You never described it.

> Asking  why people want to boot ""old"" OS's or not given the 
> possibility to boot old OS's  gives me the idea , that the Windows 
> mentality in the Linux world is growing.
> 
> 
> Ger van Dijck.
> 
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