From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1JKaef-00056X-7q for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:44:41 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JKaec-000558-Ok for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:44:39 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JKaeb-00053e-1H for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:44:38 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JKaea-00053J-L0 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:44:36 -0500 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JKaea-00008G-Co for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:44:36 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.6] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JKacM-0006Ki-KH; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:42:19 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JKaZD-0004xu-GO; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:39:03 +0100 Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:39:03 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080131143903.GA18954@thorin> References: <47948422.8000208@leat.rub.de> <20080121121828.GA9244@thorin> <4795B435.20102@leat.rub.de> <20080122124642.GC2017@thorin> <4795EC4D.5020207@leat.rub.de> <47A05477.5030300@leat.rub.de> <20080130194854.GA2143@thorin> <47A1877D.7020009@leat.rub.de> <20080131115855.GA13960@thorin> <47A1DA90.30003@leat.rub.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <47A1DA90.30003@leat.rub.de> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Cc: 462218@bugs.debian.org, Otavio Salvador Subject: Re: Bug#461442: detection of other OSes in update-grub X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:44:39 -0000 On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 03:26:24PM +0100, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > Robert Millan schrieb: > >Sorry, I got confused. The generic linux-device / grub-drive conversion > >tool > >is no problem. I think it's fine to add it. > > > > Fine! > > >The problem is if you need grub-probe to work with an input different than > >a filesystem path. > > > > I won't need grub-probe at all as soon as the aforementioned tool exists. > (My initial idea was to integrate the functionality into grub-probe, but > a separate tool is fine as well.) > > >If you want the former, feel free to send a patch to grub-devel. > > Hey, I'm allready proud of my little shell script... ;) > > > For the > >latter, look at my questions and send some feedback. > > > > Sorry, Robert, but which questions? It is described earlier in this thread, but it doesn't matter. If adding a drive/device conversion utility is enough for you, please can you send a patch for it? You could even merge it with the os-prober one and send it altogether, if that's more practical for you. Thank you! -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.)