[oi-dev] FLAG DAY: Provide loader menu additions for boot image.

[Aurélien Larcher]

On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 12:47 PM, Toomas Soome <tsoome at me.com> wrote:

>
> > On 4. nov 2016, at 11:53, Jean-Pierre André <
> jean-pierre.andre at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> >
> > Toomas Soome wrote:
> >>
> >> Support for specifying loader configuration on installation media was
> added to distribution constructror.
> >>
> >> This support consists several components.
> >>
> >> 1. loader configuration script for distribution manifest:
> >
> > I do not see information about which file systems are supported
> > by the loader.
> >
> > Is dual (triple) booting on Windows (ntfs) and Linux (ext2)
> > supported by the loader (or planned to be supported) ?
> >
> > Jean-Pierre
> >
> >
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>
> I forgot to add; for dual boot *menu* entry, all you need is to set
> chain_disk=“devicename:”, for example in file /boot/conf.d/chainload  - if
> the variable chain_disk is set, the menu entry will appear. In case of
> distro constructor, this will be done in /boot/loader.rc.local on installer
> image. However, we do not install this file to disk (if you will look into
> it, you can figure out, why;).
>

Could we compile the info on the Wiki somehow, or if you have a pointer at
hand?


>
> rgds,
> toomas
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