From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1OB8AF-000488-BQ for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 May 2010 11:11:31 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1OB8AD-00047X-76 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 May 2010 11:11:29 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=37036 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OB8AB-000478-9F for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 May 2010 11:11:28 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OB8A8-0003Q2-JW for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 May 2010 11:11:27 -0400 Received: from mail-fx0-f41.google.com ([209.85.161.41]:56233) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OB8A8-0003Px-EJ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 May 2010 11:11:24 -0400 Received: by fxm9 with SMTP id 9so92466fxm.0 for ; Sun, 09 May 2010 08:11:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :x-enigmail-version:content-type; bh=h8Ag4Dq5CEuSRhwWZvAEuH0GCCZWIJFyEmrqTJMUjY8=; b=EYexxlIEAxfhXoJ/AUHmr7NmwJrDPDbaiX0iGhPd9kKTu+5UvFd9Qi6CDS+DIFlIOR fZhHDBD2sjYzs8NCSMQUVc0bUxq2OuncSPC5MtHjr31JIZUFJsYpSeQXxyhRmxUt9V0Q HpDSQni03o+DSX9YcnGovRIgLzxPyDIICbimk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type; b=QlyUHt980n7yLv+qaob0TyvOEif252LLJo6aof4rcrtvIq6M9belsak7P85Y44vIo/ uC1rqrgTyeVJjz9kWsPCXVZ+ypBN0BPJYc6hkgsxzAvNpCl0bbQhkh2LKK6tXe+k4RRQ Afq2j6+eyIHIDoL7mBtsk9vWOaWsiMoL3cyTw= Received: by 10.87.48.34 with SMTP id a34mr7842657fgk.2.1273417883383; Sun, 09 May 2010 08:11:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from debian.bg45.phnet (4-97.203-62.cust.bluewin.ch [62.203.97.4]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d4sm8586764fga.20.2010.05.09.08.11.22 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 09 May 2010 08:11:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4BE6D092.5020601@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 09 May 2010 17:11:14 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?VmxhZGltaXIgJ8+GLWNvZGVyL3BoY29kZXInIFNlcmJpbmVua28=?= User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20091109) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GNU GRUB References: <4BE6C049.2000108@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigF482821995DB11A80FDC274B" X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Subject: Re: Adding support for top grub menu X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 09 May 2010 15:11:29 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigF482821995DB11A80FDC274B Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Jarno Suni wrote: > 2010/5/9 Vladimir '=CF=86-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko = : > > =20 >> I don't understand what you're exactly saying but if you install >> os-prober grub will discover other OS in update-grub. >> =20 > > But if you use os-prober, I suppose it finds all kernels installed in > all distributions and makes the grub menu too big. And the > distributions found by os-prober can not update the grub menu, when > they get new kernel. > > > I want to chainload grubs to make menus more tidy and modular, but > installing the top grub could be more elegant. > > The top menu grub partition is independent of the operating system > installed so the menu would continue to exist even if all partitions > of all distributions and other operating systems were reformated; on > the other hand any linux distribution that has grub 2 could be used to > maintain the top grub. My approach uses chainloading grubs, but if I > have understood correctly, installing to boot sector of a partition is > not recommended. > > =20 For this case install tools to generate grub.cfg for each distro without installing actual grub and then in main grub.cfg: menuentry "OS 1" { search -s -l configfile /boot/grub/grub.cfg } =2E.. --=20 Regards Vladimir '=CF=86-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko --------------enigF482821995DB11A80FDC274B Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iF4EAREKAAYFAkvm0JgACgkQNak7dOguQgnszAEAqZpPaOdS+ylRfcmi9Ipd4UEb w8u1YNzw6LafgKaGxfAA/19EjsIqysDoCx8+2b8gIws0orUQopdmyf5BY13BAkgQ =VQEm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigF482821995DB11A80FDC274B--