Re: Boot Loader Spec

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On Mar 11, 2013, at 10:00 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> Note: $BOOT should be considered shared among all OS installations
>> of a system. Instead of maintaining one $BOOT per installed OS (as
>> /boot was traditionally handled), all installed OS share the same
>> place to drop in their boot-time configuration.
> 
> This is really just begging on your knees for the various distros to
> stomp on each others bootloaders, or alternatively -- and just as badly
> -- not update the bootloaders at all.

They already do this now.

> It is way more robust to let each distribution have its /boot and worry
> about its own bootloader.

This is what we have today. It's not robust.


Chris Murphy

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