Dear Dennis,
In message 20130801120603.1683f7a6@adria.ausil.us you wrote:
ultimately I want to have a standard way to boot any system that just works and does not need the installer to know or care what the target system is. using boot.scr and uEnv.txt does not work for my goals.
But your requirement is just one out of a number of such requirements, and I see no indication that an "one size fits all" approach would be possible.
ultimately for Fedora we do not want to use uEnv.txt or boot.scr at all we want to use a extlinux.conf file and sysboot provided by cmd_pxe the rest is to provide flexibility and options to users to choose different ways to boot. the above is not at all suitable.
Just stating what you don't want, and what you want, is not exactly a constructive process. It's like saying: "I'm right, you all are wrong."
The thing is, that the overwhelming majority of systems are not running a standard distro like Fedora, and don't have any such features as boot extlinux.conf files or sysboot or whatever -they don;t have it, and they cannot afford it because they have totally different requirements to meet. Please try and keep this in mind. Yourrequiremetns are but a special case here - one which we will try to support in the best possible way, of course, but it's just one out of many.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk