From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1NT0gp-0004m8-O9 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:18:47 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NT0go-0004lD-7R for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:18:46 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NT0gi-0004iG-SS for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:18:44 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49965 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NT0gi-0004i9-L2 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:18:40 -0500 Received: from mail-yw0-f177.google.com ([209.85.211.177]:36307) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NT0gi-0008OY-D2 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:18:40 -0500 Received: by ywh7 with SMTP id 7so10383491ywh.24 for ; Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:18:39 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=zv83m2mhvUEHX1mVu3lkBLVmuDOTHpBkSJINnFelies=; b=u+zI0UNERXc4yrdtNpHwV/RnJwXxqKmOmU3mLE7YWkpbpHKTkihfv+j0vY0EGnc4d2 sm5O7tC29ClWtN8SvWNn1d1RCaFzPbDOWwJSrcDsVzCkhAsUqRBx917KcuiRoFxw30IR pthSpRRiaTDRdWpSsSzcsbR3nQr+6wBQE7eXA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=J62pZ7MkxoGS/0pySFrCKFntHdyoyonZLG6mnHLvNGLiv2gZ+fJaW9BW2EwzHGvoWh +vm8bkFmxypoXIC0pH9t3NmRRDBO5vdtqgFQLOY0OJtM/KB0zudCd2NlpVaT7/FYBwM4 WWLYvbBy2wquT5mlixwMJ+/UA3Y01vwvxDuSE= Received: by 10.150.169.19 with SMTP id r19mr43211424ybe.111.1262902719358; Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:18:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.0.75? (cpe-24-174-183-197.satx.res.rr.com [24.174.183.197]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 4sm7724557ywi.57.2010.01.07.14.18.38 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:18:38 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B465DBD.6010400@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:18:37 -0600 From: Bruce Dubbs User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080722 SeaMonkey/1.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GNU GRUB References: <20091207142806.GB6439@riva.ucam.org> <20091207172522.GA31361@riva.ucam.org> <20091209214915.GF7093@thorin> <20091209230443.GH6439@riva.ucam.org> <20091210005527.GB15546@thorin> <20091210081252.GI6439@riva.ucam.org> <20091224211827.GH12122@thorin> <20091226132551.GA20730@thorin> <20100106160023.GS5847@riva.ucam.org> <20100107213010.GE26340@thorin> In-Reply-To: <20100107213010.GE26340@thorin> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Subject: Re: [RFC] Dynamic device.map X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:18:46 -0000 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