From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1QgIqD-00085H-9d for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 11:56:13 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:58853) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QgIqA-00084U-Al for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 11:56:11 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QgIq9-0000ui-2Q for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 11:56:10 -0400 Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([213.165.64.22]:41632) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QgIq8-0000uT-KX for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 11:56:09 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 11 Jul 2011 15:55:55 -0000 Received: from p54952B47.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO [192.168.1.20]) [84.149.43.71] by mail.gmx.net (mp048) with SMTP; 11 Jul 2011 17:55:55 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1002206 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/ip21epsTidwGzEfvVUcYkW3jnb+KYcp0e4d6bOQ XgVAX8jQbeq7PD Message-ID: <4E1B1D09.9030703@gmx.de> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 17:55:53 +0200 From: Axel Kellermann User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110516 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: grub-devel@gnu.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Skip partitions during OS probing References: <4E18CB86.8040806@gmx.de> <4E1B1333.6050505@cfl.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <4E1B1333.6050505@cfl.rr.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 213.165.64.22 Cc: Phillip Susi X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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, 11 Jul 2011 15:56:11 -0000 > Partition numbers tend to get moved around quite frequently, so this > would be a fragile configuration, and require manual entry. It would be Good point. I guess the proposed solution works well with internal HDDs, as they tend to always get the same device names during system initialization (at least I never observed different behaviour on my machine), but could be fragile for external drives. > better to automatically notice that the partition is a Win7 system I agree. But I guess on my machine it is not really grubs fault that the Win7 system partition is marked as bootable. I only have one of those Win7 licenses that come with recovery media, so I'm not able to do a manual, clean install and it seems the recovery installation always makes the system partition bootable. I'm probably not the only one experiencing this kind of faulty setup... > partition, and ignore it. If you must explicitly exclude manually > chosen partitions, they should be specified by UUID. I guess we could work with UUIDs instead of partition names, but it also turns this little patch into something a bit more complicated. I'd be happy to look into it, but we should first decide if we really cover a use-case here or if the whole thing isn't worth the effort. Thanks, Axel