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Subject: bug#27007: boot-parameters are not documented
Date: Fri, 26 May 2017 10:47:02 +0200
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Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> skribis:

> 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?
>
> I think so.
>
> But there are bootloaders that [also can] do the traditional thing:
> When you 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 also load Windows NT bootloader directly or
> chainload an UEFI file etcetc - there are actually a lot of different
> kinds of "menu entries" even with the same bootloader.

Right, but this is about the content of the menu entry.  If we want to
support that, we can provide an =E2=80=9Cescape hatch=E2=80=9D in the =E2=
=80=98menu-entry=E2=80=99
object, which would be a string that goes as-is in the bootloader=E2=80=99s
config file.

I wonder if we should support everything you mention though.  OTOH it
would not feel right if we can=E2=80=99t load other free operating systems =
like
FreeBSD, etc.  Maybe we should just start with support for GNU variants
only and improve it later as people ask for it.

Thoughts?

Ludo=E2=80=99.