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
next prev parent 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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