From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1KJ7jW-0007XN-MV for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:11:54 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KJ7jU-0007PL-HV for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:11:52 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KJ7jS-0007FU-M4 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:11:52 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54180 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KJ7jS-0007Ei-I7 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:11:50 -0400 Received: from gateway14.websitewelcome.com ([70.85.130.16]:42162) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KJ7jS-0004GR-3M for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:11:50 -0400 Received: (qmail 586 invoked from network); 16 Jul 2008 14:19:52 -0000 Received: from gator297.hostgator.com (74.53.228.114) by gateway14.websitewelcome.com with SMTP; 16 Jul 2008 14:19:52 -0000 Received: from c-67-185-142-228.hsd1.wa.comcast.net ([67.185.142.228]:41793 helo=localhost) by gator297.hostgator.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1KJ7jO-0003el-4i; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:11:46 -0500 Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:11:26 -0700 From: Colin D Bennett To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080716071126.170a1d58@gibibit.com> In-Reply-To: <1216165935.9604.26.camel@dv> References: <1216040584.9995.52.camel@dv> <200807160115.07363.okuji@enbug.org> <1216164117.9604.8.camel@dv> <200807160132.18470.okuji@enbug.org> <1216165935.9604.26.camel@dv> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - gator297.hostgator.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gnu.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - gibibit.com X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Cc: proski@gnu.org Subject: Re: Next release? 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: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:11:52 -0000 On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:52:15 -0400 Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 01:32 +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > > > If a boot drive is the same as a root drive, you are right. > > Otherwise we need to do so. > > > > I think we have seen tons of examples with GRUB Legacy which may > > not be solved automatically in all cases. If one digs into the > > archive of bug-grub, I guess several cases would be found easily. > > With GRUB 2, we can avoid embedding BIOS drive numbers in many > > cases, using UUIDs or labels or files. But this does not always > > work, so I am afraid that we need to support device.map, even if it > > is an evil necessity. > > That's a very advanced setup. I actually cannot imagine why anyone > would use different boot and root drives. Well, maybe the boot drive > has no partitions that GRUB or the host OS can access? I have used machines that have multiple Linux versions spread across two drives, but one common /boot partition so they can all be booted from GRUB. This doesn't seem unusual to me.