Fedora tested in c't: grub missing feature

[Thomas Bendler]

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 5:32 AM, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta at gmail.com> wrote:

> [...]

What piece of metadata defines a distribution..even an unnamed distribution?


If we talk about meta data, we talk about a change in GRUB. This won't be a
working solution within the next months but it might be the correct solution
for the future.


> If i have 15 partitions, only the ntfs partition has a boot label, how
> does the installer determine which of the other 4 partitions are the
> /boot or / of a linux distribution?


??? You are not able to figure out what a root partition is and what a boot
partition is? The only thing you need is the root partition, the rest will
be in /etc/fstab. And to find out what a root partition is, is not really
complicated, all distributions will have a common set of directories in /,
if not, they are not detected, but for most of the distributions this will
work.

Regards, Thomas
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