Re: [RFC] Support for UEFI ESP in os-prober

[Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com>]

В Wed, 05 Jun 2013 12:21:54 -0500
Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs@gmail.com> пишет:

> Mads Kiilerich wrote:
> > On 05/31/2013 07:03 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> >> Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> >>
> >>> I must say I'm generally disappointed with os-prober and have
> >>> ideas to move away from it. I'll start another topic for it.
> >>
> >> I agree.  I would prefer adding an include command so grub.cfg could
> >> just do something like:
> >>
> >> include /boot/grub/grub.d/*.cfg
> >>
> >> and have an install procedure drop in one or more menu items instead
> >> of every os install or update rewriting the entire grub.cfg every time.
> >
> > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/BootLoaderSpec/ describes
> > such a configuration structure, and
> > http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/grub2.git/plain/0362-blscfg-add-blscfg-module-to-parse-Boot-Loader-Specif.patch
> > implements it as a grub command.
> 
> Although that's a good start, it seems a little too specific.  What I 
> had in mind would be the equivalent to the source command in bash.

grub already has "source" command.

>                                                                    For 
> example,
> 
> if condition; then
>    include (hd0,3)/grub/custom/themes/themeA.cfg
> else
>    include (hd0,2)/boot/grub/themes/themeB.cfg
> fi
> 
> # Get menuentries
> include /boot/grub/grub.d/*.cfg
> 

Implementing full-fledged globbing in grub is probably overkill; adding
"source_dir" command looks more doable. Something like

source_dir --suffix .cfg /boot/grub/grub.d 

Any takers? :)