From: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Scan root device dynamically at startup
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 14:38:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080529123823.GA391@thorin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57693.195.113.21.148.1212062759.squirrel@drak.ucw.cz>
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 02:05:59PM +0200, Tomáš Ebenlendr wrote:
>
> Dne 29 Květen 2008, 12:46, Bean napsal(a):
>
> > I think this is the most convenient way of installing grub2 in vista.
> > User don't need any customization. They just add the entry and copy
> > /boot/grub to any supported partition. Besides, our driver currently
> > don't support UUID, and some partition doesn't have UUID (like FAT).
> >
>
> Every FAT has serial number, generated when first formating of partition,
> it is only 4 bytes, so it is not as unique as UUID but it suffices.
>
> Other filesystems often have similar identifiers.
My point is not about FAT; that's just an example. What I mean is we can't
always rely on UUID being usable; and in Bean's use case it isn't.
--
Robert Millan
<GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call!
<DRM> What good is a phone call… if you are unable to speak?
(as seen on /.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-29 12:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-20 10:22 [PATCH] Scan root device dynamically at startup Bean
2008-05-28 13:54 ` Robert Millan
2008-05-28 14:53 ` Bean
2008-05-29 9:58 ` Robert Millan
2008-05-29 10:46 ` Bean
2008-05-29 12:05 ` Tomáš Ebenlendr
2008-05-29 12:38 ` Robert Millan [this message]
2008-05-30 13:29 ` Robert Millan
2008-05-30 13:35 ` Bean
2008-05-29 12:50 ` Robert Millan
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