Subject: Re: bug#27007: boot-parameters are not documented

From: Danny Milosavljevic <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 22:11:01 +0200

On Tue, 23 May 2017 10:13:11 +0200
[email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès) wrote:
> Can we assume that all the bootloaders have a notion of “menu” and “menu
> entries”? 

I think so.

But there are bootloaders that [also can] do the traditional thing: When you select an entry, it can chainload the bootsector of that partition.  For example Grub can do that.  We don't support that use case yet.  Grub can also load Windows NT bootloader directly or chainload an UEFI file etcetc - there are actually a lot of different kinds of "menu entries" even with the same bootloader.

See also <https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2/Chainloading>.

It's just a question of what of all that stuff we want to support (as in maintain).