[systemd-devel] implementation status of http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/BootLoaderSpec/ ?

[Kay Sievers]

On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 11:46 PM, Colin Walters <walters at verbum.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-06-11 at 17:14 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
>
>> The question I had looking at this is: what determines the ordering?  I
>> guess it's intended to be the version field, but what if I have both
>> Debian and Fedora installed, the default comes down to whichever has a
>> newer kernel?
>
> Ah I'm blind, that's listed in "out of focus".  So it seems we'll have
> to keep around the "native" config files like syslinux.conf for defaults
> at least.  That's potentially awkward if one tries to go the route of
> generating bootloader configs, since then you have a situation where a
> file is only partially generated.  But the fix for that I guess is to
> have the bootloaders parse /boot/loader/entries at runtime.

Yeah, bootloaders should read the snippets directly, and not generate
any files for configuration which includes kernels or other tools.
This all is an attempt to not change (mess up) the boot loader config
when installing/removing a kernel.

Kay