Robert Millan wrote: > On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 02:31:10PM +0200, phcoder wrote: >>> I assume you talk about GRUB loading itself; what kind of information would >>> you pass from one GRUB to the other? >> Boot device, > > Multiboot already handles that (although it's not reliable; I don't > think this feature should be used anyway). > Feature in multiboot is hmm..: it gives bios device and grub supports also other devices. >> configuration file, parameters for scripts. > > This assumes the loader knows more than the loadee about this information. > In which situation would this happen? Note that both loader and loadee can > obtain user input. > > Which parameters do you have in mind? > I thought of it more like about instruction like: boot from strange place or enter debug mode in early stage. >> But much more >> useful this is for network boot. In this case GRUB can recieve server >> info in boot parameters so when this info changes there is no need to >> regenerate grub images. > > Doesn't PXE already handle this? > I'm not really familiar with it. Does it support multiple servers. If let's say we have multiple menus like: <load linux from server1 (normal copy)> <load linux from server2 (experimental copy)> <load freebsd from server3> Then having recieved names of servers as parameters could sometimes be a good thing. But still for me this feature is just an idea. I'm still not persuaded myself whether it's needed. Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
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