From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1NWfmH-0004Nn-BZ for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:47:33 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NWfmF-0004Ni-35 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:47:31 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NWfmA-0004NW-B7 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:47:30 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52886 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NWfmA-0004NT-6H for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:47:26 -0500 Received: from nereid.marlboro.edu ([206.192.68.76]:41624) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NWfm9-0003ZW-S0 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:47:25 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.102] (71-10-224-192.dhcp.oxfr.ma.charter.com [71.10.224.192]) (Authenticated sender: idupree) by nereid.marlboro.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 18E7223400A; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:47:15 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4B53AF92.1080402@isaac.cedarswampstudios.org> Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:47:14 -0500 From: Isaac Dupree User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090817) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GNU GRUB References: <000001ca9756$fae87380$f0b95a80$@com> <4B532073.2000706@isaac.cedarswampstudios.org> <000701ca97b5$f39bcff0$dad36fd0$@com> <20100118000715.GT5847@riva.ucam.org> In-Reply-To: <20100118000715.GT5847@riva.ucam.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Marlboro-Information: Please contact techsupport@marlboro.edu for more information X-Marlboro-MailScanner-ID: 18E7223400A.A62B5 X-Marlboro-MailScanner: clean X-Marlboro-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-2.54, required 5.5, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, BAYES_20 -0.74) X-Marlboro-MailScanner-From: ml@isaac.cedarswampstudios.org X-Marlboro-MailScanner-Watermark: 1264380435.55549@sB6NayuNTP40Y2ruGErquw X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Subject: Re: Trouble booting from a large USB hard drive 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: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:47:31 -0000 Colin Watson wrote: > Unfortunately, I rather suspect that the very problem being addressed > there means that we won't be able to implement your idea automatically. Me too, but for this reason: putting /boot near the beginning will be normal partitioner stuff, but this person's reason for caring about the partition order is that he knows which partition he wants to be mounted by Windows, and that's "#1". Which is an idea that could be implemented in a GUI, given the right libraries, (potentially though, if there's a different current partition-#1, at the expense of anything that refers to *that* partition by number) (and it might be too hacky an idea, i.e. being Windows-related and all, for gnu/linux developers to want to support so cleanly anyway)