On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 06:08:41PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
>
> > IIRC for my Windows 2k system, the Windows installation creates a bootsector
> > on both the rootpartition _and_ the partition on which the /winnt directory
> > is created.
> > Unlike Debian, you don't have a choice :-(
> >
On 19.III.2004 at 13:43 Wouter Verhelst wrote:
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> That's not what this is about. AIUI, this thing tries to detect stuff by
> looking at a partitioning table.
Sure. I want us to develop more generic interface between
/usr/share/os-prober/lib.sh and the boot loaders. os-prober/lib.sh
doesn't hav
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 02:15:26PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> On 19.III.2004 at 12:19 Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 12:43:56PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> > >
> > > What about the various arguments that the 'linux' style bootloader
> > > needs? At least the kernel, ini
On 19.III.2004 at 12:19 Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 12:43:56PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> >
> > 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 th
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"
> > ^--^ ^^ ^---^
> > partitionOS name for boot May change: type of boot loader
> >
On 17.III.2004 at 00:19 Joshua Kwan wrote:
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> "/dev/discs/.../part1:Windows NT/2000/XP:chain"
> ^--^ ^^ ^---^
> partitionOS name for boot May change: type of boot loader
>loader's prettyrequired. Usually there is only
>
> IIRC for my Windows 2k system, the Windows installation creates a bootsector
> on both the rootpartition _and_ the partition on which the /winnt directory
> is created.
> Unlike Debian, you don't have a choice :-(
>
> For older versions (95/98) I've had to recreate the bootsector.
>
> Note tha
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Sorry for the double post, forgot to finish a sentence.
On Wednesday 17 March 2004 15:38, Eddy Petrisor wrote:
> There is the posibility that the partition that booted
> before not to be the one containing the other(s) OS.
> Take Windows 2k or XP: The
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On Wednesday 17 March 2004 15:38, Eddy Petrisor wrote:
> There is the posibility that the partition that booted
> before not to be the one containing the other(s) OS.
> Take Windows 2k or XP: They can have their boot files on
> the primary partition th
> > > "/dev/discs/.../part1:Windows NT/2000/XP:chain"
> > > ^--^ ^^ ^---^
> > > partitionOS name for boot May change:
> type
> > of boot loader
> > >loader's prettyrequired.
> Usually
> > there is only
> > >
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 12:19:48AM -0800, Joshua Kwan wrote:
> This will eventually be README in tools/os-prober if it seems to be OK.
> Please comment!
>
> os-prober
>
>
> This is a small shell library that may be depended on by any bootloader
> installer package to detect other filesys
This will eventually be README in tools/os-prober if it seems to be OK.
Please comment!
os-prober
This is a small shell library that may be depended on by any bootloader
installer package to detect other filesystems with operating systems on
them.
(What follows below is more of a design
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