From: Frombenny <frombenny@gmail.com>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Labels in grub2
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 11:40:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CD28DB4.9050801@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CD0A554.5060404@zen.co.uk>
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Good idea because UUID aren't easy to read and the order of the disks
hd(0,1)/(1,1) or sda/sdb can be sorted differently by the system when an
USB Key is plugged.
Le 03/11/2010 00:57, Barry Jackson a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> I spoke to Colin Watson on IRC recently and asked if the use of labels
> could be made an option in grub2 in the future.
>
> He suggested I mention it on this list.
>
> In the meantime I have made some patches to demonstrate this idea in
> grub 1.98 which I have attached.
>
> They work fine for me, with GRUB_USE_LABEL="true" set in
> /etc/default/grub in my Mandriva-Linux systems.
>
> A grub.cfg produced with a patched grub2 is attached also.
>
> I am not a professional programmer, so I would appreciate any
> constructive criticism, and your comments in general on this idea.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Barry Jackson
>
>
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-02 23:57 Labels in grub2 Barry Jackson
2010-11-04 10:40 ` Frombenny [this message]
2010-11-04 12:12 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2010-11-04 19:27 ` Barry Jackson
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