From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1XAQhg-0000HT-CE for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 17:37:32 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54683) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XAQhd-0000Gk-Lw for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 17:37:30 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XAQhc-000399-9m for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 17:37:29 -0400 Received: from mail-we0-x22a.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c03::22a]:63233) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XAQhc-000391-2y for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 17:37:28 -0400 Received: by mail-we0-f170.google.com with SMTP id w62so3441900wes.15 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 14:37:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type; bh=rcJN6x95xBEkTK9/YkGNq5d52OFf10U5NBvSvSP4EXs=; b=E7pEFKPsdDGuRyii9WHK3LbNmpvQGcLZhKTpOGgUNQbg9dScblboRS7sQFZN6hlc0h naqvUhl0gKMwohknFxMsXnsiCvRN22UYpWssldArJQiu/m70smKI+E92Ugs+MjkJeGWU wLh9MNBQadJTip0sc1bbxA63hQbz2I4MRKV03X/nqQYaxcsYtIp4MMAF6jxNVl5nAsZt pNnrM/4ZbuY5GqyPm7iW3P8bejdtZlHhZmTblMgEjCSsUym0eP9661jS42noPmJ6YInD ClgVtcX+h6vS4IfWGXGW2v0wObQlEUr630lWyKNlv5g0bEqj95Cqwrakih5CaVJz+RxJ 6c0A== X-Received: by 10.194.6.10 with SMTP id w10mr16094697wjw.51.1406237846775; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 14:37:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?IPv6:2a02:1205:34e1:3c90:3e77:e6ff:feb1:aba3? ([2a02:1205:34e1:3c90:3e77:e6ff:feb1:aba3]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id 10sm19226988wjr.22.2014.07.24.14.37.24 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 24 Jul 2014 14:37:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <53CF666F.5070203@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 09:38:23 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?VmxhZGltaXIgJ8+GLWNvZGVyL3BoY29kZXInIFNlcmJpbmVua28=?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/31.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GNU GRUB Subject: Re: multi-boot References: <539B2348.80902@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <539B2348.80902@gmail.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="1Kfg7pWvBl4U2je8rL28G1G39vBXCvMn1" X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:400c:c03::22a X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 21:37:30 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --1Kfg7pWvBl4U2je8rL28G1G39vBXCvMn1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 13.06.2014 18:14, Gene Czarcinski wrote: > In second 5.3 of the GNU GRUB 2.00 manual, there is a statement > "Currently autogenerating config files for multi-boot environments > depends on os-prober and has several shortcomings." >=20 > I agree. Os-prober and the way it works with 30_os-prober is fragile at= > best and sometimes produces incorrect configurations. >=20 > Personally, I use a variation of the manually configured option > described in section 5.3: I install a very small system and then use > /etc/grub.d/40_custom to provide my multi-boot options ... mostly by > chainloading configfile. >=20 > In section 5.3, there is also mention of "fixing it is scheduled for th= e > next release" and "it" refers to os-prober. OK, what is the story? Is > anything being done to improve easy configuration for multi-boot? >=20 "it" does not refer to os-prober but to autogeneration. It's not that easy that's why it was postponed. The main problem is to avoid infinite recursion. > Just what is the status of using/depending-on os-prober? >=20 > Some distributions such as SUSE, Fedora, RHEL, Ubuntu (?) believe that > users want some type of auto-config which enables them to bootup their > old systems when a new install replaces the MBR and points to this newl= y > install system. >=20 > Comments? >=20 > Gene >=20 > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel >=20 --1Kfg7pWvBl4U2je8rL28G1G39vBXCvMn1 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 iF4EAREKAAYFAlPPZm8ACgkQmBXlbbo5nOuSoQEAiFNgn9JX9wu+Vgp3niJcPqex orvuqyA4y+Wr00MrjlAA/3B8QR2LcRNpreHwtS1S6cb+KzrSW2C60UNzPnVioKX4 =oP9a -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --1Kfg7pWvBl4U2je8rL28G1G39vBXCvMn1--