GNU bug report logs - #27007
'menu-entry' disappeared from the bootloader API

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Tomáš Čech <sleep_walker <at> gnu.org>

Date: Sat, 20 May 2017 20:01:02 UTC

Severity: important

Done: Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #23 received at 27007 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Tomáš Čech <sleep_walker <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>, 27007 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#27007: boot-parameters are not documented
Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 17:55:19 +0200

Hi!

Tomáš Čech <sleep_walker <at> gnu.org> skribis:

> Defining other operating system entry:
>
> (menu-entry
>  (label "openSUSE")
>  (linux "(hd0,msdos1)/vmlinuz")
>  (linux-arguments (list  "root=/dev/penguin/opensuse"  "init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd"))
>  (initrd "(hd0,msdos1)/initrd"))))))

I think <menu-entry> is the right abstraction level for this use case;
<boot-parameters> may be overkill for that.

To me <boot-parameters> was an internal thing, I didn’t understand we
were going to expose it.  Can’t we keep exposing ‘menu-entry’?  We’ll
probably have support the ‘menu-entry’ form for backward-compatibility
reasons at least.

Thoughts?

Thanks,
Ludo’.
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