From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] File access library for lua
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:25:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1246058726.20234.35.camel@mj> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090623225058.GA12402@thorin>
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.
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-26 23:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-21 11:33 [PATCH] File access library for lua Bean
2009-06-22 0:42 ` Pavel Roskin
2009-06-22 3:38 ` Bean
2009-06-22 3:45 ` Pavel Roskin
2009-06-22 9:44 ` Robert Millan
2009-06-22 10:26 ` Bean
2009-06-22 10:59 ` Robert Millan
2009-06-22 17:37 ` Bean
2009-06-22 18:31 ` Pavel Roskin
2009-06-22 18:49 ` Bean
2009-06-22 18:59 ` Pavel Roskin
2009-06-22 19:15 ` Bean
2009-06-22 19:28 ` Pavel Roskin
2009-06-22 19:50 ` Bean
2009-06-22 20:06 ` Pavel Roskin
2009-06-23 9:27 ` Bean
2009-06-23 22:10 ` Pavel Roskin
2009-06-23 22:50 ` Robert Millan
2009-06-26 23:25 ` Pavel Roskin [this message]
2009-06-24 4:41 ` Bean
2009-06-24 5:58 ` Bean
2009-06-27 0:22 ` Pavel Roskin
2009-06-27 3:53 ` Bean
2009-06-27 4:04 ` Pavel Roskin
2009-06-27 4:14 ` Bean
2009-07-05 9:59 ` Bean
2009-07-05 13:11 ` Duboucher Thomas
2009-07-05 14:28 ` Bean
2009-06-25 22:39 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-06-26 23:45 ` Pavel Roskin
2009-07-31 8:07 ` Marco Gerards
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