From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1JbzRx-0000Ss-H5 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:39:29 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JbzRv-0000S0-1v for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:39:27 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JbzRt-0000QM-AL for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:39:26 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JbzRs-0000QA-QX for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:39:24 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JbzRs-0003Rh-Ml for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:39:24 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.6] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JbzRO-0008AC-NH; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:38:58 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JbzQl-0000HV-R1; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:38:15 +0100 Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:38:15 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080319143815.GA885@thorin> References: <20080225142009.GJ14597@thorin> <47C66239.9020709@leat.rub.de> <20080228101000.GA350@thorin> <47C68CBD.8020601@leat.rub.de> <20080228104156.GJ350@thorin> <47C69F1D.9090405@leat.rub.de> <20080228170738.GB26926@thorin> <47C7C349.6040303@leat.rub.de> <20080303210656.GD22431@thorin> <47CE91CC.5010603@leat.rub.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <47CE91CC.5010603@leat.rub.de> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Cc: Fabian Greffrath Subject: Re: [NEW PATCH] os-prober output parser X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:39:27 -0000 Sorry for the delay in repliing. Been very busy :-( I tried the script and have the following comments: When run in the console it makes Linux spit a truckload of information about filesystem probing. Is there any way we could avoid this? How do you prevent it from detecting your own partition? I didn't see any provisions for this. On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 01:27:56PM +0100, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > ???#! /bin/sh -e Whops. This tag (utf-8 stuff?) breaks the Linux shebang parser :-) > if [ -x /usr/bin/os-prober -a -x /usr/bin/linux-boot-prober ] ; then : ; else Can we avoid hardcoding their absolute path? -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.)