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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