I don't have relevant experience regarding multiboot in general, but ... On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 08:53:12AM +0930, Brendan Trotter wrote: > The same would apply to internationalization - GRUB should tell the OS > which language/locale it used, so that the OS can automatically use > the same language as a default (especially for OS installation CDs).
Speaking as an OS installer developer, I'd actively prefer GRUB not to try to do this via specialised methods like multiboot. I don't want to have to maintain language lists and what-have-you in yet another place, cope with all the usual slight variations (e.g. things like pt_BR, or God-help-us something like the hopelessly inadequate language list in the USB keyboard specification), and cope with the fact that there are still more boot loaders out there than just GRUB and so some other mechanism needs to be maintained anyway. Any OS installer that can take advantage of this kind of thing almost certainly already has facilities to simply pass the appropriate locale code as a boot parameter. GRUB should just use that. That means it's accessible to the scripting interface, and so any necessary fixups will be much easier to understand and maintain. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
