From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1K2kiF-0003RQ-Np for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 06:22:55 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K2kiC-0003Qy-W0 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 06:22:53 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K2kiA-0003Ql-Iv for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 06:22:51 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44933 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K2kiA-0003Qi-FK for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 06:22:50 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:56877) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K2kiA-0003vI-5I for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 06:22:50 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1K2khX-0002aX-7y for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 12:22:11 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1K2khy-0000Rf-AW for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 12:22:38 +0200 Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 12:22:38 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080601102238.GA1581@thorin> References: <1212185676.18496.9.camel@dv> <20080531095311.GE6619@thorin> <1212301167.6853.20.camel@rd> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1212301167.6853.20.camel@rd> 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. Subject: Re: Searching UUID on floppies 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: Sun, 01 Jun 2008 10:22:53 -0000 On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 02:19:27AM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Sat, 2008-05-31 at 11:53 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > > Some of our commands use --no-floppy. Also supported in GRUB Legacy (by 'find' > > or so, can't remember). Perhaps it's better to use that for consistency? It > > is the floppy scan which everyone hates; for other devices I don't think > > people will mind if GRUB spends a few ms on them. > > Sure, --no-floppy would be consistent with the installers, but it will > take some effort to get right. Let's not forget CD floppy emulation, by > the way. You wrote that sometimes a hard drive can be reported as a > floppy. Perhaps we still want to search floppies as the last resort. > > Besides, I'd prefer to avoid floppy search is all "search" commands. I > have a custom rule to boot another distro, and it uses "search" by > label. I don't want to add --no-floppy to that command because it's an > extra effort. It's not hard for GRUB to do things nicely without having > users edit their custom rules. > > That's why I would prefer optimized search order. But I'm not strongly > opposing --no-floppy as long as it's done right. Search order has been optimized now (see the other sub-thread). But there's still room for improvement, of course.. -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What good is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.)