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| author | Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@nebula.com> | 2014-07-09 13:54:48 -0400 |
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| committer | Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@nebula.com> | 2014-07-09 14:13:15 -0400 |
| commit | 3bbf87315a2d77bfc0a657389c7e2f626d9a5f1e (patch) | |
| tree | 7ccf1f9493c0921616c11db7816b5a4458aec4fc | |
| parent | 38b7338aa5baa4b17c8e82c0b31ddc8cc4bbc442 (diff) | |
Provide guidance on naming of chainload fragments
OS installers may want to create fragments to permit the chainloading of
other operating systems, but ideally only one such fragment will exist for
each target no matter how many operating systems are installed. Provide some
guidance on consistent naming.
| -rw-r--r-- | MatthewGarrett/BootLoaderSpec.mdwn | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/MatthewGarrett/BootLoaderSpec.mdwn b/MatthewGarrett/BootLoaderSpec.mdwn index 2944c36a..ca6ea377 100644 --- a/MatthewGarrett/BootLoaderSpec.mdwn +++ b/MatthewGarrett/BootLoaderSpec.mdwn @@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ A _kernel installer package_ installs the kernel and initrd images to either `$B A _UI application_ intended to show available boot options shall operate similar to a boot loader, but might apply additional filters, for example by filtering out the booted OS via the machine ID, or by suppressing all but the newest kernel versions. -An _OS installer_ picks the right place for `$BOOT` as defined above (possibly creating a partition and file system for it), and pre-creates the `/org/freedesktop/bls/entries/` directory in it. It then installs an appropriate boot loader that can read these snippets. Finally it installs one or more kernel packages. On POSIX-style operating systems, $BOOT must be accessible via /boot/bls - this may be either a mountpoint or a symlink (eg, /boot/bls may be a symlink to /boot/efi) +An _OS installer_ picks the right place for `$BOOT` as defined above (possibly creating a partition and file system for it), and pre-creates the `/org/freedesktop/bls/entries/` directory in it. It then installs an appropriate boot loader that can read these snippets. Finally it installs one or more kernel packages. On POSIX-style operating systems, $BOOT must be accessible via /boot/bls - this may be either a mountpoint or a symlink (eg, /boot/bls may be a symlink to /boot/efi). It is acceptable to create boot fragments to chainload operating systems that are unaware of this specification. Such entries should be created using a consistent naming scheme that does not embed the machine-id - for example, use the OS name followed by the chained filesystem ID (eg, macosx-9004e695-2e0f-4230-9a9e-e90bb1e88e17.conf) or "ESP" in the case of $BOOT (eg, ubuntu-ESP.conf). ## Out of Focus |