From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>
To: grub-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: get partition by name
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 12:04:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140929110401.GA10711@riva.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN9vWD+Trv9D3VAQzBUPo-6XqmQEY5==+y2hZ64BgfXyB4UT0A@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 10:25:51AM +0200, Michael Zimmermann wrote:
> currently GRUB allows selecting partitions by the partition number only -
> like (hd0,11).
> Sometimes - especially for embedded systems it would be useful to be able
> to select them by the name define in the partition table. like: (hd0,boot)
> or (hd0,rootfs).
>
> Are they any plans(or existing features which I missed) for this?
Use the "search" command.
https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#search
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@ubuntu.com]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-29 11:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-29 8:25 get partition by name Michael Zimmermann
2014-09-29 11:04 ` Colin Watson [this message]
2014-09-29 17:20 ` Michael Zimmermann
2014-09-29 17:40 ` Andrei Borzenkov
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