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From: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
Subject: bug#27007: [PATCH 2/2] doc: Adapt to multiple bootloader support.
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2017 16:11:57 +0200
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To: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
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Hi Ludo,

On Mon, 05 Jun 2017 12:36:28 +0200
ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) 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-t=
he-format technically does support submenus [2].

> >  @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 en=
try from the boot menu on bootup would have had - it just additionally defa=
ults to that entry.

On the other hand, when you run "guix system reconfigure" or "guix system i=
nit":  There, it will install and use the (newly) specified one.

[1] See also <https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/blob/master/cmd/bootmenu.c>.
[2] See also <http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=3DMenu#MENU_BEGI=
N>.