Hi Danny, Danny Milosavljevic <[email protected]> skribis:
> On Mon, 05 Jun 2017 12:36:28 +0200 > [email protected] (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: > >> What happens with other bootloaders? Do we get older boot entries? > > Yes, but U-Boot has no support for submenus, only one menu [1]. > Extlinux-the-format technically does support submenus [2]. OK. >> > @item switch-generation > >> What happens to the bootloader itself? Does it change the bootloader to >> the one that was chosen back then? > > No. We had been thinking about it but it's unsafe to do that. > > So instead switch-generation will always reuse the bootloader that was used > in the current generation. > > switch-generation has the same effect as manually selecting another menu > entry from the boot menu on bootup would have had - it just additionally > defaults to that entry. > > On the other hand, when you run "guix system reconfigure" or "guix system > init": There, it will install and use the (newly) specified one. OK, got it, thanks for clarifying! I think it would make sense to be explicit about this in the manual. Ludo’.
