Re: Automatically detect other OSs and generate grub entries

[Ludovic Courtès]

Amirouche Boubekki <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 3:39 PM Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Arun Isaac <address@hidden> skribis:
>>
>> > Instead of having to manually specify custom grub entries in config.scm,
>> > can Guix use os-prober to automatically detect other operating system
>> > and generate grub entries?
>> >
>> > https://joeyh.name/code/os-prober/
>>
>> I think there is value in having everything in the GuixSD config, which
>> can then be put under version control.
>>
>> Now, I have a single OS on my machines so I’m probably not part of the
>> target audience.  :-)
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>
> My understanding is that os-probe could generate part of GuixSD config.

Ah yes, that’d be easy and useful.  The first step would be to make a
package for it.

Ludo’.