Re: VMWare/Hardware Detection

[Adam Lackorzynski]

On Fri Jan 09, 2004 at 14:41:46 -0800, Ian Duggan wrote:
> Is there any way to have grub choose menu options based on a hardware
> profile of some sort? Basically I would like to teach it to always pick my
> windows partition if it can figure out that it is being run from within
> VMWare. This could be generalized to picking menu options based on some
> recognizable hardware configuration.
> 
> Has anyone done something like this before with grub or anything else?

http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grub/2003-05/msg00039.html

More recent patch is:
http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/~adam/grub/0.93/grub-0.93-os.11.diff.gz


Choosing an entry with a trigger isn't directly supported but one could
build something with variables. The vmware trigger only supports
version 3 right now, version 4 can be easily added.



Adam
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