From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1MZtvO-0004s1-24 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Aug 2009 17:58:02 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MZtvM-0004qH-Ti for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Aug 2009 17:58:00 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MZtvI-0004pi-AX for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Aug 2009 17:58:00 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=39504 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MZtvI-0004pf-4p for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Aug 2009 17:57:56 -0400 Received: from mailout06.t-online.de ([194.25.134.19]:40979) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MZtvH-0007Cv-MO for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Aug 2009 17:57:55 -0400 Received: from fwd07.aul.t-online.de by mailout06.t-online.de with smtp id 1MZtvE-0001Lg-00; Sat, 08 Aug 2009 23:57:52 +0200 Received: from [10.3.2.2] (rxGTNGZGrhPFjAK0mrmjY7NVN7Ur5IdMDq-k-LmaOSaQcRKPi+5+MfIFHEyBmPvQXt@[217.235.223.203]) by fwd07.aul.t-online.de with esmtp id 1MZtv0-1VCTjs0; Sat, 8 Aug 2009 23:57:38 +0200 Message-ID: <4A7DF4DC.5010106@t-online.de> Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2009 23:57:48 +0200 From: Christian Franke User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090403 SeaMonkey/1.1.16 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <20090802232422.GA23320@thorin> <20090804192715.GA14820@thorin> <4A791A24.8050602@t-online.de> <20090807105810.GB6695@thorin> <20090807114344.GO6695@thorin> <5FD279B0-A670-4A9F-8F5C-C3A56AAABFAB@zetam.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ID: rxGTNGZGrhPFjAK0mrmjY7NVN7Ur5IdMDq-k-LmaOSaQcRKPi+5+MfIFHEyBmPvQXt X-TOI-MSGID: d4c96935-89e2-4c38-a025-130edfd89065 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Subject: Re: [PATCH] ntldr support 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: Sat, 08 Aug 2009 21:58:01 -0000 Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: >> About the command, i think that it will be simpler for the user if we have >> only one command: chainloader (like in grub4dos) that will try to detect the >> type of the bootloader. This is only my personal opinion. >> > I don't agree with this. chainloader and ntldr don't share the same > syntax: chainloader expects a bootsector whereas ntldr expects an > ntldr ot bootmgr file. GRUB2 is done to break with bad design > decisions of GRUB1 one of them being "kernel" command. GRUB4DOS > follows GRUB1 on this subject. > I agree. It probably would make sense that the 'ntldr' command does simple signature checks and fail on unknown files unless '--force' is specified. -- Regards, Christian Franke