From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: device.map (Re: Next release?)
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:46:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1216766783.5601.33.camel@dv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080722220837.GB15825@thorin>
On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 00:08 +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> I don't think it's that unusual. Let's take an example. We have 1 PATA
> disk and 1 SATA disk, and are installing GNU/Linux in it. We only have
> one /boot partition (or directory in /). Turns out we have no idea which
> of the two disks the BIOS will want to use for boot. So the safest option
> is to grub-install in both. A consequence of this is that one of the two
> installs is cross-disk.
I'm not saying it's unusual. GRUB cannot distinguish an external SATA
from an internal SATA. In case on an external SATA, the user may expect
to create a drive that would boot everywhere.
> And (provided that UUIDs are used), this setup is _completely_ reliable and
> there's no reason to prevent the user from doing it, IMHO.
My point is not to prevent it, just to make it clear to the user.
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-22 22:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-14 13:03 Next release? Pavel Roskin
2008-07-14 16:55 ` Christian Franke
2008-07-14 20:27 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-07-15 5:40 ` Christian Franke
2008-07-20 21:10 ` Christian Franke
2008-07-15 13:49 ` Robert Millan
2008-07-15 15:07 ` Patrick Georgi
2008-07-15 18:39 ` Christian Franke
2008-07-15 18:32 ` Christian Franke
2008-07-15 21:04 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2008-07-15 22:31 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-07-15 23:15 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2008-07-15 23:21 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-07-15 23:32 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2008-07-15 23:52 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-07-16 14:11 ` Colin D Bennett
2008-07-16 14:17 ` Javier Martín
2008-07-16 16:17 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-07-16 16:28 ` Javier Martín
2008-07-16 16:08 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-07-19 15:14 ` device.map (Re: Next release?) Robert Millan
2008-07-21 21:26 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-07-22 21:36 ` Robert Millan
2008-07-22 21:57 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-07-22 22:08 ` Robert Millan
2008-07-22 22:46 ` Pavel Roskin [this message]
2008-07-19 15:06 ` Next release? Robert Millan
2008-07-19 20:16 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2008-07-19 20:59 ` Robert Millan
2008-07-21 20:48 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-07-22 21:37 ` Robert Millan
2008-07-22 22:01 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-07-22 22:09 ` Robert Millan
2008-07-22 22:41 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-07-24 17:02 ` Marco Gerards
2008-07-24 17:18 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-07-24 21:47 ` Christian Franke
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