Fedora tested in c't: grub missing feature

Tomasz Torcz tomek at pipebreaker.pl
Thu Feb 5 10:21:52 UTC 2009


On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 10:45:24PM -0900, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> 2009/2/3 Christoph Höger <choeger at cs.tu-berlin.de>:
> > Would that lead to some kind of hierarchy like:
> >
> > fedoras grub:
> >        -> kernel x.yy.z
> >        -> kernel a.bb.d
> >        -> Windows
> >        -> OpenSUSE
> >        -> Ubuntu
> >
> > Where OpenSUSE and Ubuntu link to their own grub (or whatever)?
> 
> That is a very high level view. Does that scale to the hundreds of
> linux distribution variants that are possible to install? How exactly
> do we know which linux distribution is installed?

  Can grub just look for all grub config files on all partitions and
present one consolidated menu?

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