From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1KMUXi-0001AX-RP for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:09:38 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KMUXh-0001A1-Ba for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:09:37 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KMUXf-00019H-Re for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:09:36 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41331 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KMUXf-00019E-LE for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:09:35 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:52671) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KMUXf-0004fM-AM for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:09:35 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KMURT-0005U5-Ek for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:03:11 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KMUWm-00055n-D4 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:08:40 +0200 Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:08:40 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080725210840.GA19505@thorin> References: <20080722133416.GB5524@archvile> <20080722095021.p15u40gtyc88csco-cebfxv@webmail.spamcop.net> <3FA357AE49694559941A663191155DE2@fz> <5A50C2D990914B3F8A73A02D520E8DED@fz> <1216918145.22586.14.camel@dv> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1216918145.22586.14.camel@dv> 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: Issue with boot != root and chainloading 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: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:09:37 -0000 On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 12:49:05PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > > As I said, GRUB uses its internal ID instead of BIOS ID. We need to fix > it. Why not just remove that logic and use UUIDs instead? It would also simplify the code both in grub-setup and in kernel, maybe even make it smaller. -- 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 /.)