Hi Robert,
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 01:39:48PM -0600, richardvo...@gmail.com wrote:
I think a bootloader with "universal" in its name should be doing
everything possible to avoid this. If I want to multiboot between
Linux, NetBSD, OpenSolaris, and OpenBSD, do I load my MBR with the BSD
fork of GRUB, the Linux fork of GRUB, or the Solaris fork of GRUB?
It doesn't matter, because whichever version of GRUB you use should
generate a grub.cfg that uses multiboot command with appropiate
parameters.
According to my little experience, I believe that GRUB should not rely
too much on an automatic generation of a correct grub.cfg. This
requires an os-prober command that (1) is available on the system
installing GRUB, which is not always the case, and (2) can detect other
installed Oses correctly, which is not always the case as well.
What if I want to install GRUB to some removable drive or floppy disk
for the purpose of rescuing systems with a damaged MBR? You cannot hope
to generate a grub.cfg that will universally work, so in that case you
must use the GRUB shell.
As you mentionned in a previous email, it is important to keep the GRUB
shell user-friendly. Requiring users to duplicate the first argument of
multiboot commands is not my idea of user-friendliness. But I agree
that it works.
Grégoire
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