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'menu-entry' disappeared from the bootloader API

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Message #47 received at 27007 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>
To: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Cc: Tomáš Čech <sleep_walker <at> gnu.org>,
 Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe <at> gmail.com>, 27007 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#27007: boot-parameters are not documented
Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 22:11:01 +0200

On Tue, 23 May 2017 10:13:11 +0200
ludo <at> gnu.org (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).

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