[plug] Intelligent Boot loader? Any advice?

[Craig Ringer]

On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 10:51 +0800, Jo! wrote:
> Hi there,
>  
> This is my first post... thanks for you help!
>  
> I am pretty new at Linux so this question may be obviously simple.
>  
> I have the following situations:
> 1) Multiple OS in different partitions.
> 2) Partitions may or may not be available as they are removable.

Neither of those should pose any problems.

> 3) The Boot loader must have a list of different OS. Even if the user
> select a unavailable OS, the boot loader will inteligently inform the
> user that the OS is not available rather than die.

That might be more trouble, though. I think GRUB (the standard boot
loader on most Linux distros now) should handle things fairly cleanly
though, from memory... the best way to find out is to try it out.
 
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Craig Ringer