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From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Does grub2 solve this problem I am having with grub1? RE: usbsticks.
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:50:37 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1201841437.18433.70.camel@dv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080201043402.GA5385@io.com>

On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 22:34 -0600, Paul Elliott wrote:

> Ok, but how do I say the same device as I am in now, but the
> 3rd partiton, rather than the first.
> 
> How do I say (hdX,3) where X in the device I am in now? And
> X may vary at boot time depending on the number of hard disks
> on the target system?

I wish I knew the answer.  There is some undocumented scripting
functionality, but it doesn't appear to be capable of that yet.  Perhaps
there should be a "boot_device" variable for that purpose.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin



  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-01  4:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-31 16:08 Does grub2 solve this problem I am having with grub1? RE: usbsticks Paul Elliott
2008-01-31 16:58 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-02-01  4:34   ` Paul Elliott
2008-02-01  4:50     ` Pavel Roskin [this message]
2008-02-01 12:59       ` Paul Elliott
2008-02-01 17:25         ` Pavel Roskin
2008-02-01 18:44           ` Paul Elliott
2008-02-01 20:14             ` Pavel Roskin
2008-02-01 21:45               ` Paul Elliott
2008-02-01 21:50                 ` Robert Millan
2008-02-02 12:11             ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2008-02-02 14:34               ` Paul Elliott
2008-02-03  5:58                 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-02-04  3:46                   ` Pavel Roskin
2008-02-04 13:24               ` Paul Elliott

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