Re: Using conditionals in embedded config?

[Shea Levy]

I see. This seems to severely limit the possible use cases of embedded 
configs; it also contradicts the example in the manual [1]. Is there 
really no way to branch in embedded configs? Would it be possible to 
enable branching by including some optional module in the core img?

~Shea

[1] 
https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Embedded-configuration.html#Embedded-configuration
On 2016-02-06 00:42, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
> 06.02.2016 06:24, Shea Levy пишет:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > How can I use if statements in an embedded config? When I try, I get
>
> You can't. embedded config is processed early using rescue mode 
> parser
> which is very simple. Embedded config exists to locate device where 
> grub
> is installed in case this information is not available from firmware.
> Everything else cam be done using grub.cfg in this location.
>
> > "unknown command "if"", "unknown command "fi"", etc. I'm including
> > normal, part_gpt, android_bootimg, android_bcb, linux, test, and
> > biosdisk in the core.img (the android_* modules are local 
> > modifications,
> > see the grub-devel list for their details but they shouldn't 
> > matter).
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Shea
> >
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