Fedora tested in c't: grub missing feature

[Pierre-Yves]

Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> 2009/2/3 Christoph Höger <choeger at cs.tu-berlin.de>:
>> Would that lead to some kind of hierarchy like:
>>
>> fedoras grub:
>>        -> kernel x.yy.z
>>        -> kernel a.bb.d
>>        -> Windows
>>        -> OpenSUSE
>>        -> Ubuntu
>>
>> Where OpenSUSE and Ubuntu link to their own grub (or whatever)?
> 
> That is a very high level view. Does that scale to the hundreds of
> linux distribution variants that are possible to install? How exactly
> do we know which linux distribution is installed?
Looking at the bootable sector is there not a way to retrieve those info ?

Pierre