From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1K7wsG-0004zT-WD for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:22:45 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K7wsF-0004z7-Jn for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:22:43 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K7wsE-0004yq-4O for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:22:43 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53098 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K7wsD-0004yl-S1 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:22:41 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:41935) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K7wsE-0003kZ-1w for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:22:42 -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 1K7wq7-0007DX-Tg for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:20:32 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1K7wrr-0003N3-97 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:22:19 +0200 Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:22:19 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: grub-devel@gnu.org Message-ID: <20080615182219.GA12911@thorin> References: <20080606160946.GA13716@thorin> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20080606160946.GA13716@thorin> 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: [PATCH] boot from LVM / RAID 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, 15 Jun 2008 18:22:43 -0000 On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 06:09:46PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > This patch makes it possible to boot directly from LVM or RAID. > > It is archieved by permitting that grub_prefix include a drive component as > part of its path. The kernel already knows how to extract root from there, > as long as `grub_install_dos_part == -2'. The memdisk part of this was basicaly a bugfix, so I checked it in. The rest seems to duplicate stuff that grub-setup was already doing, and I think I'll have to take a closer look (I'll send another mail about that later). -- 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 /.)