Fedora tested in c't: grub missing feature

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams ivazqueznet at gmail.com
Thu Feb 5 11:30:26 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 19:32 -0900, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> What piece of metadata defines a distribution..even an unnamed distribution?
> If i have 15 partitions, only the ntfs partition has a boot label, how
> does the installer determine which of the other 4 partitions are the
> /boot or / of a linux distribution?

I think that the idea is to get together with the other distributions
and define such a piece of metadata. Not everyone may cooperate, but
those that do will get a named entry.

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Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet at gmail.com>

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