Re: Next release?

[Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>]

On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 00:09 +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 06:01:41PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 23:37 +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> > 
> > > > Suppose that we don't have device.map.  Then I don't need to add entries
> > > > for temporary devices.  Also, I won't be able to create a cross-drive
> > > > configuration by accident, simple because it won't be allowed by
> > > > default.
> > > 
> > > But we could have device.map _and_ a fallback mechanism for when there's
> > > no match (e.g. give it a "(dummy0)" drive).
> > > 
> > > I even STR I implemented that in some patch.
> > 
> > The problem was that the reliable information was called "dummy" and
> > used as fallback, whereas the unreliable information was used by
> > default.
> 
> None of it was intended to be reliable for anything.  It was simply a way of
> making GRUB non-util code handle system devices that haven't been registered
> in device.map, like a temporary USB disk.

The boot driver information from BIOS should be considered as more
reliable than guess by a userspace program how BIOS might see the
drives.

There are known buggy BIOSes, but we know how to work it around.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin