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From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add drivemap support to 30_os-prober.in and use UUIDs
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:34:46 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1244579686.4420.11.camel@mj> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1244578916.3477.17.camel@fz.local>

On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 22:21 +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote:

> os-prober currently prints `chain' on FreeDOS, QNX4, Windows, MS-DOS,
> Solaris, Minix and Dell Utility Partition 
> Solaris probable won't need it but for Minix and QNX4 (I don't even know
> what this is) I don't know.
> FreeDOS probable needs it too or not?

FreeDOS 1.0 still needs drivemap.  Dell Utility Partition is MS DOS
based, so I think it needs drivemap too.

> So better just use it always and if someone says it can't boot because
> of drivemap we can change it for that OS.

That's exactly my suggestion.

Even we check that a certain version of, say, QNX is fine without
drivemap, some older version may need it, and somebody may have that
version.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin



  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-09 20:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-07 15:37 [PATCH] add drivemap support to 30_os-prober.in and use UUIDs Felix Zielcke
2009-06-07 15:55 ` Pavel Roskin
2009-06-08 10:54   ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-06-09 20:21     ` Felix Zielcke
2009-06-09 20:34       ` Pavel Roskin [this message]
2009-06-11 19:00 ` Felix Zielcke

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