On systems which support multiple boot platforms such as BIOS and
EFI, it makes no sense to show menu entries which are not supported
by the current boot platform. Menu entries generated from os-prober
"chain" boot type use boot sector chainloading which is supported
on PC BIOS platform only.
Show "chain" menu entries only if boot platform is PC BIOS.
Show "efi" menu entries only if boot platform is EFI.
This is aimed to allow os-prober to report both EFI and PC BIOS
boot loaders regardless of the current boot mode on x86 systems
which support both EFI and legacy BIOS boot, in order to generate
a config file which can be used with either BIOS or EFI boot.
Signed-off-by: Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
GRUB documentation states:
GRUB_OS_PROBER_SKIP_LIST
List of space-separated FS UUIDs of filesystems to be ignored from
os-prober output. For efi chainloaders it’s <UUID>@<EFI FILE>
But the actual behaviour does not match this description.
GRUB_OS_PROBER_SKIP_LIST="<UUID>"
does nothing. In order to skip non-EFI bootloaders, you must set
GRUB_OS_PROBER_SKIP_LIST="<UUID>@<DEVICE>"
which is both absurd, <UUID> and <DEVICE> are redundant, and wrong,
<DEVICE> such as /dev/sd* may not be persistent across boots.
Also, any non-word character is accepted as a separator, including "-"
and "@" which may be present in UUIDs. This can cause false positives
because of partial UUID match.
This patch fixes these flaws while retaining some backward compatibility
with previous behaviour which may be expected by existing setups:
- also accept <UUID>@/dev/* (with warning) for non-EFI bootloaders,
- also accept comma and semicolon as separator.
Fixes: 55e706c9 (Add GRUB_OS_PROBER_SKIP_LIST to selectively skipping systems)
Signed-off-by: Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
This is required if the pathname contains spaces or GRUB shell
metacharacters else the generated config file check will fail.
Signed-off-by: Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
Pascal Hambourg