PPC executable name

PPC executable name

[Hollis Blanchard]

I'd like to rename the PPC executable from "grubof" to "grub". If 
nothing else, it will avoid the question "is it grubof.cfg or 
grub.cfg?". Thoughts?

-Hollis

Re: PPC executable name

[Nico -telmich- Schottelius]

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Hollis Blanchard [Sun, May 08, 2005 at 10:02:06PM -0500]:
> I'd like to rename the PPC executable from "grubof" to "grub". If 
> nothing else, it will avoid the question "is it grubof.cfg or 
> grub.cfg?". Thoughts?

grub.cfg, as a user I am not interesed it "oh there is openfirmware",
but I simply assume:

   config = packagename.cfg

and if I know grub(x86) I assume grub(ppc) and grub(sparc) use
the same config with similar syntax.

Nico

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Re: PPC executable name

[Marco Gerards]

Hollis Blanchard <hollis@penguinppc.org> writes:

> I'd like to rename the PPC executable from "grubof" to "grub". If
> nothing else, it will avoid the question "is it grubof.cfg or
> grub.cfg?". Thoughts?

What I would prefer is _grub or so.  To make clear it is not usable
just like this.  We don't want people loading this file directly.
Adding a "_" might make it clear this is a file that is weird in a way
and users should not use it directly.  The name `grubof' is not *that*
bad either.  People do not use it directly, right?

For any arch the config file should be called grub.cfg, IMO.

Thanks,
Marco

Re: PPC executable name

[Nico -telmich- Schottelius]

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Marco Gerards [Tue, May 10, 2005 at 08:03:57PM +0200]:
> Hollis Blanchard <hollis@penguinppc.org> writes:
> 
> > I'd like to rename the PPC executable from "grubof" to "grub". If
> > nothing else, it will avoid the question "is it grubof.cfg or
> > grub.cfg?". Thoughts?
> 
> What I would prefer is _grub or so.  To make clear it is not usable
> just like this.  We don't want people loading this file directly.
> Adding a "_" might make it clear this is a file that is weird in a way
> and users should not use it directly.  The name `grubof' is not *that*
> bad either.  People do not use it directly, right?
> 
> For any arch the config file should be called grub.cfg, IMO.

Oh, I misunderstood hollis, if that's true. I thought grubof will later
be the 'call it with a configuration, wait some seconds, and grub is
installed'-tool.

Btw, what will the way you advise,
   a) like yaboot, mount the bootstrap partiton only when writing config
   b) or mount it as /boot, modifiy grub.cfg on it?

I would like the later option, because as far as I understood, making
changes to grub.cfg does not need any command execution, as grub
(the binary, which can be loaded by of) didn't change.

Or is this assumption wrong?

Nico

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Re: PPC executable name

[Marco Gerards]

Nico -telmich- Schottelius <nico-linux-grub@schottelius.org> writes:

> Btw, what will the way you advise,
>    a) like yaboot, mount the bootstrap partiton only when writing config
>    b) or mount it as /boot, modifiy grub.cfg on it?
>
> I would like the later option, because as far as I understood, making
> changes to grub.cfg does not need any command execution, as grub
> (the binary, which can be loaded by of) didn't change.

Right, this (b) is what I would prefer as well.  GRUB loads grub.cfg
from the path configured by prefix (a GRUB variable).  This variable
is set automatically to the place grub (the OF binary) is loaded from,
and can be overridden in OF (if Hollis applies his patch).

--
Marco