Re: Some GRUB ideas

[komputes <komputes@gmail.com>]

You're probably right, although the focus of my question/feature request 
is on the (hd0,0) syntax and not on the device file. I was thinking it 
could prompt devices.map for the drive names. Grub can't use /dev/sda1 
style syntax, you are correct, and I can't think of a logical workaround 
other than that.

That being said, it would still be useful for the user to be able to see 
what drive a grub has access to. Going back to the basic concept of the 
request which was to simplify grub for the new user by displaying which 
hard drives/partitions are available for grub to boot from (in (hd0,0) 
syntax). This could help the user easily create a menu.lst from the grub 
prompt/shell/menu.

-k

Neil Jerram wrote:
> komputes <komputes@gmail.com> writes:
>
>   
>> $ grub --pitty-da-foo #this command doesn't exist (...yet)
>> Checking disks...
>>
>>                                 Mem  Used
>> (hd0)      /dev/sda
>>           (hd0,0)   /dev/sda1  50GB  25%
>>           (hd0,1)   /dev/sda2  50GB  25%
>>
>> (hd1)   /dev/sdb
>>           (hd1,0)   /dev/sdb1  50GB  25%
>>           (hd1,1)   /dev/sdb2  50GB  25%
>>     
>
> Just a thought: but if Grub could do that, couldn't it just accept the
> "/dev/sda1"-style syntax everywhere?
>
> Regards,
>         Neil
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