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[ The guys are talking about GRUB, which is the Grand Unified Boot Loader that is being used for loading the Mach kernel at the lowest level. I can't believe they are serious, somehow... ]
- To: Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@trick.fig.org>
- Subject: Re: Parsing of Config files (was Re: GRUB installation thoughts)
- From: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
- Date: 07 Feb 1999 14:20:44 -0500
- Cc: "Fredrick Paul Eisele" <kzccb2@ameritech.net>, <debian-hurd@lists.debian.org>, "Erich Boleyn" <erich@uruk.org>
- References: <003b01be51de$6b801be0$3da0fea9@llama><86lnibphtg.fsf@trick.fig.org>
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Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@trick.fig.org> writes: > As far as scripting languages, GNU is settling on Guile, so I would > imagine that eventually, the `menu.lst' would either use Guile, or > have a Guile-like syntax, and be renamed so that there was no > confusion or problems with backward-compatibility. I'm sympathetic to this, and it would be kind of cool to have guile in the boot loader. I am a little concerned about how fast such a bootloader would start up. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-hurd-request@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org