From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: grub-probe, but in reverse?
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:19:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1249057159.16125.22.camel@mj> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090731103602.GQ11691@riva.ucam.org>
On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 11:36 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> They're entered by users choosing where to install GRUB, whom we can
> hardly expect to enter UUIDs by hand.
Likewise, we shouldn't expect them to enter drives in the GRUB notation,
such as "(hd0)".
> Perhaps we can figure out how to
> give them a select list of available choices, which could then include
> UUIDs behind the scenes ...
Yes, something like that. Users should be able to choose the disk by
its size, maker, Linux device name.
Maybe GRUB could support disk UUID eventually, but in the meantime, a
UUID of one of the partitions would do, as long as it's indeed unique.
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-31 16:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-29 18:35 grub-probe, but in reverse? Colin Watson
2009-07-29 21:03 ` Pavel Roskin
2009-07-31 10:36 ` Colin Watson
2009-07-31 11:15 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-07-31 16:15 ` Robert Millan
2009-07-31 16:19 ` Pavel Roskin [this message]
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