From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1LjsrQ-00041L-H3 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:18:56 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LjsrP-00041E-4Y for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:18:55 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LjsrK-00040Z-Kb for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:18:54 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56836 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LjsrK-00040W-GN for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:18:50 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:41284) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LjsrK-0004i7-5w for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:18:50 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LjsiP-0008N6-9W for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:09:38 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LjsrG-0005Gu-Ub for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:18:46 +0100 Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:18:46 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20090318101846.GD20072@thorin> References: <20090314.151417.194555320.davem@davemloft.net> <20090315154531.GD24554@thorin> <20090315.154116.198032129.davem@davemloft.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090315.154116.198032129.davem@davemloft.net> 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/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: GRUB device names wrt. ieee1275 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, 18 Mar 2009 10:18:55 -0000 On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 03:41:16PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Robert Millan > Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:45:31 +0100 > > > It's not an absolute must that device names are unique. You can still > > identify partitions by their filesystem UUID or label, and in fact this > > is what our default scripts (grub-mkconfig) do anyway. > > Things like UUID and labels are not an option for the 512-byte > boot block where I have to know the exact OBP path of the boot > device, and this is what the GRUB kernel fetches from the > 'bootpath' environment variable to compose the root device > and path. What 512-byte boot block? -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."