From: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nested partitions
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:52:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100125075241.GF13584@thorin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100125073135.GB13584@thorin>
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 08:31:35AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> When you hide complexity from the user, the user doesn't generally care or
> want to understand what this involves. When we accept "(hd0,1)" from the
> user, it implies we know what's the partition label in hd0, but reality is
> that we're just guessing. User, however, will expect things to "just work",
> and if they fail will blame it on GRUB. This is what I refer to when I
> speak of burden.
Btw, I forgot to mention that initially GRUB took a very different approach:
labels were considered arch-specific, so on i386-pc you only had msdos labels,
on powerpc-ieee1275 you only had apple labels, etc. With this approach, the
probing problem doesn't exist.
--
Robert Millan
"Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Gandhi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-25 7:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-11 15:51 [PATCH] nested partitions Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-07-16 20:52 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-07-31 7:58 ` Marco Gerards
2009-07-31 9:39 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-07-31 19:48 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-07-31 20:25 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-08-02 22:17 ` Robert Millan
2009-08-02 22:36 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-08-02 22:02 ` Robert Millan
2009-08-02 22:09 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-08-02 22:25 ` Robert Millan
2009-08-02 22:44 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-08-04 20:15 ` Robert Millan
2009-08-17 13:00 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-08-17 14:06 ` Robert Millan
2009-08-17 14:34 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-08-23 22:57 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-08-24 13:39 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-08-25 20:14 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-08-25 23:07 ` Robert Millan
2009-08-25 23:13 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-08-26 0:50 ` Robert Millan
2009-08-25 20:35 ` Seth Goldberg
2009-08-25 21:12 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-01-22 16:53 ` Robert Millan
2010-01-22 18:03 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-01-24 20:41 ` Robert Millan
2010-01-24 21:20 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-01-25 7:23 ` Robert Millan
2010-01-25 0:38 ` Bruce Dubbs
2010-01-25 4:56 ` Michal Suchanek
2010-01-25 7:31 ` Robert Millan
2010-01-25 7:52 ` Robert Millan [this message]
2010-01-25 8:25 ` Grégoire Sutre
2010-01-22 18:43 ` Seth Goldberg
2010-01-24 20:44 ` Robert Millan
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