From: Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs@gmail.com>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Dynamic device.map
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:18:37 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B465DBD.6010400@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100107213010.GE26340@thorin>
Robert Millan wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 04:00:23PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
>>> Just leave it with (/dev/foo).
>> You mean literally with the parentheses? I don't understand, since /dev/
>> names will be unintelligible to GRUB when running outside an operating
>> system.
>
> Yes. This just means we'd have "set root=(/dev/foo)" statements in grub.cfg,
> but those are just meant as a backward compatibility hack for pre-UUID GRUB
> installs.
Are you are implying that UUID will be the only way? I don't use
initrd's on my systems so I need root=(hd0,x) or root=(/dev/foo).
AFAIK initrd is the only way to load with UUIDs.
-- Bruce
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-07 22:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-07 14:28 [RFC] Dynamic device.map Colin Watson
2009-12-07 17:25 ` Colin Watson
2009-12-09 21:49 ` Robert Millan
2009-12-09 23:04 ` Colin Watson
2009-12-10 0:55 ` Robert Millan
2009-12-10 8:12 ` Colin Watson
2009-12-24 21:18 ` Robert Millan
2009-12-26 13:25 ` Robert Millan
2009-12-26 21:37 ` David Miller
2009-12-26 22:01 ` Robert Millan
2010-01-06 16:00 ` Colin Watson
2010-01-07 21:30 ` Robert Millan
2010-01-07 22:18 ` Bruce Dubbs [this message]
2010-01-07 22:33 ` Colin Watson
2010-01-08 5:27 ` Bruce Dubbs
2010-01-08 10:02 ` Felix Zielcke
2010-01-08 16:36 ` Bruce Dubbs
2009-12-10 10:12 ` Felix Zielcke
2009-12-24 21:17 ` Robert Millan
2009-12-25 17:02 ` Felix Zielcke
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