From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1DbCHu-0000WC-J3 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 May 2005 02:56:14 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DbCHl-0000PF-CB for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 May 2005 02:56:05 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DbCHi-0000NS-4f for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 May 2005 02:56:02 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DbCHf-0000Lj-D5 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 May 2005 02:56:00 -0400 Received: from [145.74.66.11] (helo=mail-cn.han.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DbCDp-0002uD-0i for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 May 2005 02:52:01 -0400 Received: from vscan-cn.han.nl (venus.han.nl [145.74.65.6]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 439EE9269 for ; Thu, 26 May 2005 08:51:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail-cn.han.nl ([145.74.66.11]) by vscan-cn.han.nl (venus.han.nl [145.74.65.6]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 29419-09 for ; Thu, 26 May 2005 08:51:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail1.han.nl (mail1.han.nl [145.74.103.11]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26961928A for ; Thu, 26 May 2005 08:51:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (mgerards.xs4all.nl [82.92.27.129]) by mail1.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1E37C048 for ; Thu, 26 May 2005 08:51:22 +0200 (CEST) Mail-Copies-To: metgerards@student.han.nl To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <20050509050526.GA18510@miracle> <20050513124307.GA13577@suse.de> <64f2ea4622d8f5d4cdeafdd5bae03cb7@penguinppc.org> <20050518195458.GA10996@suse.de> <87k6lpq4vm.fsf@student.han.nl> <20050525165834.GA17726@suse.de> From: Marco Gerards Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 08:51:22 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20050525165834.GA17726@suse.de> (Olaf Hering's message of "Wed, 25 May 2005 18:58:34 +0200") Message-ID: <87k6lma39x.fsf@student.han.nl> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new (2.2.0) at vscan-cn.han.nl Subject: Re: [ppc] [patch] set environment from commandline 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: Thu, 26 May 2005 06:56:08 -0000 Olaf Hering writes: > On Mon, May 23, Marco Gerards wrote: > >> perhaps the amount of memory, time and date, etc. > > Why would anyone care about that in a bootloader? Some people want to boot a specific OS depending on the time. There have been a lot of requests for this. -- Marco