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From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Issue with boot != root and chainloading
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:47:00 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1217022420.3957.3.camel@dv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080725210840.GA19505@thorin>

On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 23:08 +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 12:49:05PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> > 
> > As I said, GRUB uses its internal ID instead of BIOS ID.  We need to fix
> > it.
> 
> Why not just remove that logic and use UUIDs instead?  It would also simplify
> the code both in grub-setup and in kernel, maybe even make it smaller.

I have no objections to that plan.  We'll need UUID search functionality
on core.img.  I understand you implemented it already.  Is it committed?
Where should we put the root UUID in core.img?

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin



  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-25 21:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-22 13:34 Issue with boot != root and chainloading Andy Kittner
2008-07-22 13:50 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-07-22 14:01   ` Felix Zielcke
2008-07-22 23:58     ` Pavel Roskin
2008-07-24  9:12     ` Felix Zielcke
2008-07-24 10:25       ` Felix Zielcke
2008-07-24 11:00     ` Felix Zielcke
2008-07-24 16:49       ` Pavel Roskin
2008-07-25 21:08         ` Robert Millan
2008-07-25 21:47           ` Pavel Roskin [this message]
2008-07-25 22:10             ` [PATCH] use UUIDs for cross-disk installs (Re: Issue with boot != root and chainloading) Robert Millan
2008-07-26  1:08               ` Pavel Roskin
2008-07-27 12:19                 ` Robert Millan
2008-07-27 16:29                   ` Pavel Roskin
2008-07-27 18:37                     ` Robert Millan
2008-07-27 19:28                       ` UUID boot on ieee1275 (Re: [PATCH] use UUIDs for cross-disk installs (Re: Issue with boot != root and chainloading)) Robert Millan
2008-07-27 20:13                         ` [PATCH] " Robert Millan
2008-07-27 20:36                           ` Robert Millan
2008-07-30 10:41                             ` Robert Millan
2008-08-03 11:09                       ` [PATCH] use UUIDs for cross-disk installs (Re: Issue with boot != root and chainloading) Isaac Dupree
2008-08-03 12:08                         ` Robert Millan
2008-08-03 12:23                           ` Robert Millan
2008-08-03 17:04                           ` Isaac Dupree
2008-08-03 19:19                             ` Treacherous Computing (Re: [PATCH] use UUIDs for cross-disk installs) Robert Millan
2008-07-27 18:27               ` [PATCH] use UUIDs for cross-disk installs (Re: Issue with boot != root and chainloading) Robert Millan
2008-07-30 10:43                 ` Robert Millan
2008-07-22 15:09   ` Issue with boot != root and chainloading Andy Kittner

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