Re: RFC: specification for probing other OSes
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 02:15:26PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> On 19.III.2004 at 12:19 Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 12:43:56PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> > >
> > > What about the various arguments that the 'linux' style bootloader
> > > needs? At least the kernel, initrd, the root partition of the kernel
> > > and the appended arguments to the kernel are required.
> >
> > You cannot really autodetect those, can you?
>
> Yes, one can look at /etc/lilo.conf ane parse it.
That's not what this is about. AIUI, this thing tries to detect stuff by
looking at a partitioning table.
Also, parsing /etc/lilo.conf will only work if you
a) happen to be running on i386
b) on a machine which uses LILO, not GRUB or some other bootloader
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