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Subject: bug#27007: boot-parameters are not documented
Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 22:11:01 +0200
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To: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
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On Tue, 23 May 2017 10:13:11 +0200
ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) wrote:
> Can we assume that all the bootloaders have a notion of =E2=80=9Cmenu=E2=
=80=9D and =E2=80=9Cmenu
> entries=E2=80=9D?=20

I think so.

But there are bootloaders that [also can] do the traditional thing: When yo=
u select an entry, it can chainload the bootsector of that partition.  For =
example Grub can do that.  We don't support that use case yet.  Grub can al=
so load Windows NT bootloader directly or chainload an UEFI file etcetc - t=
here are actually a lot of different kinds of "menu entries" even with the =
same bootloader.

See also <https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2/Chainloading>.

It's just a question of what of all that stuff we want to support (as in ma=
intain).