[syslinux] [PATCH] chain.c32: add menu support to grub loader

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 07/01/2010 01:27 AM, Paul Bolle wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 16:20 -0700, Gert Hulselmans wrote:
>> Paul Bolle wrote:
>>> Allow the grub loader to (optionally) support using a GRUB menu file.
>>> For example
>>>     chain fs grub=stage2,grub.conf
>>>
>>> will load GRUB's stage2 and pass the (absolute) path to the file
>>> "grub.conf" in the Syslinux filesystem to GRUB's stage2. [...]
>> Why do you add (drivenumber,partition) to the config file name?
> 
> In short:  because the patch only allows to use GRUB configuration files
> from the Syslinux filesystem.
> 

Except that is not a technical restriction.  Furthermore, in the future,
Syslinux will almost certainly will allow different I/O options than
Grub; in fact, that can *already* happen especially when booting from
the network.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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