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Re: RFC: specification for probing other OSes



On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 12:43:56PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> On 17.III.2004 at 00:19 Joshua Kwan wrote:
> > 
> > "/dev/discs/.../part1:Windows NT/2000/XP:chain"
> >  ^------------------^ ^----------------^ ^---^
> >       partition        OS name for boot   May change: type of boot loader
> >                        loader's pretty    required. Usually there is only
> > 		       output             a 'linux' style bootloader or
> > 		                          a chain one for other partitions
> > 					  with their own boot sectors.
> 
> 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?

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