From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1IJXWZ-0002fI-Qr for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:39:43 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IJXWY-0002ey-2H for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:39:42 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IJXWW-0002em-3e for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:39:41 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IJXWV-0002ej-Un for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:39:39 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.174]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IJXWV-0005Pt-J0 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:39:39 -0400 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 34so578782ugf for ; Fri, 10 Aug 2007 09:39:38 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:x-accept-language:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=o5cfQwuBgpuE+nUnR+OF1V4uAWSBgvPMyuNsXSyx4Fcx8OkBm6PAR6Ao2WIEAVDqqORLO+YAnZW2G+Az/bDaDZoj6pExqKz2J9vofzxgsOIreZoD+2H1+J4bZKzylucvk2R7Z87N86uOcvzg7O+F2qnIT4P5iNNCsazCm7JITnE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:x-accept-language:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=qN9iKbXSLBGXQyGPxnmhnp3RVlOtQdXXlzdTPi/KG30bgwhRxeg/Yn1JEh9qOJlNwMQWL0O9+E4dq2NkH6VZdwgtr3GpQdP7do5PG7aL00WrHQT89m0cfpefaJsoNBMsKutlbu+cR660aTkO9keza0EOQVWMgf29mAjs150nbFk= Received: by 10.67.89.5 with SMTP id r5mr3223505ugl.1186763977898; Fri, 10 Aug 2007 09:39:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.9? ( [81.34.81.185]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id o7sm1939293uge.2007.08.10.09.39.36 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 10 Aug 2007 09:39:36 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <46BE0F3E.9060606@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 21:34:22 +0200 From: adrian15 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <46A4B040.6070404@gmail.com> <78323d480708060805x89a7732j21eb9a7c990cfa88@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <78323d480708060805x89a7732j21eb9a7c990cfa88@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 (Google crawlbot) Subject: Re: multidistro grub2 idea 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: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 16:39:42 -0000 Mani A escribió: >> #1) All Linux installers should set or reuse a ext2 partition next to >> the windows one as a /boot one where grub2 is installed. > .. . if the dreaded OS exists. But a single /boot partition is not > preferable over 'but from anywhere' principle. Well.. this is the old discussion: Centrality versus Redundancy and its problems. > >> #2) /boot/grub/ >> >> will have a new folder called: >> >> /boot/grub/menu/ >> >> which will be filled with .cfg files from the different distros that >> are installed in a computer. > > It will be a good thing if, if grub2 is installed to the mbr of the > active partition and if a new OS is going to be installed, then we > must be able to tell grub2 about it and accordingly it must be able to > update the .cfg, when the new OS tries to write to the MBR of any of > the partitions. How would you detects this partition boot records changes? Saving a backup somewhere in the linux system and running an utility on the boot that compares backup to real partition boot sectors and asks you if you want to update cfg? That's your idea? adrian15