From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: device.map (Re: Next release?)
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:46:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1216766783.5601.33.camel@dv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080722220837.GB15825@thorin>
On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 00:08 +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> I don't think it's that unusual. Let's take an example. We have 1 PATA
> disk and 1 SATA disk, and are installing GNU/Linux in it. We only have
> one /boot partition (or directory in /). Turns out we have no idea which
> of the two disks the BIOS will want to use for boot. So the safest option
> is to grub-install in both. A consequence of this is that one of the two
> installs is cross-disk.
I'm not saying it's unusual. GRUB cannot distinguish an external SATA
from an internal SATA. In case on an external SATA, the user may expect
to create a drive that would boot everywhere.
> And (provided that UUIDs are used), this setup is _completely_ reliable and
> there's no reason to prevent the user from doing it, IMHO.
My point is not to prevent it, just to make it clear to the user.
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-22 22:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-14 13:03 Next release? Pavel Roskin
2008-07-14 16:55 ` Christian Franke
2008-07-14 20:27 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-07-15 5:40 ` Christian Franke
2008-07-20 21:10 ` Christian Franke
2008-07-15 13:49 ` Robert Millan
2008-07-15 15:07 ` Patrick Georgi
2008-07-15 18:39 ` Christian Franke
2008-07-15 18:32 ` Christian Franke
2008-07-15 21:04 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2008-07-15 22:31 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-07-15 23:15 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2008-07-15 23:21 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-07-15 23:32 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2008-07-15 23:52 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-07-16 14:11 ` Colin D Bennett
2008-07-16 14:17 ` Javier Martín
2008-07-16 16:17 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-07-16 16:28 ` Javier Martín
2008-07-16 16:08 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-07-19 15:14 ` device.map (Re: Next release?) Robert Millan
2008-07-21 21:26 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-07-22 21:36 ` Robert Millan
2008-07-22 21:57 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-07-22 22:08 ` Robert Millan
2008-07-22 22:46 ` Pavel Roskin [this message]
2008-07-19 15:06 ` Next release? Robert Millan
2008-07-19 20:16 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2008-07-19 20:59 ` Robert Millan
2008-07-21 20:48 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-07-22 21:37 ` Robert Millan
2008-07-22 22:01 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-07-22 22:09 ` Robert Millan
2008-07-22 22:41 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-07-24 17:02 ` Marco Gerards
2008-07-24 17:18 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-07-24 21:47 ` Christian Franke
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=1216766783.5601.33.camel@dv \
--to=proski@gnu.org \
--cc=grub-devel@gnu.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.