From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] use UUIDs for cross-disk installs (Re: Issue with boot != root and chainloading)
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:08:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1217034532.6376.13.camel@dv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080725221050.GA31179@thorin>
On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 00:10 +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> See attached patch. I'm afraid it doesn't make kernel smaller as promised;
> I expected to get rid of make_install_device() in kernel, but later noticed
> that this is still needed for non-cross installs.
I like your patch. We should try to move more logic to scripts.
As for single drive installs, we could also encode the prefix in the
text form, like "(hd0,5)/boot/grub" and obsolete the numerical partition
data. That would make make_install_device() unnecessary.
The only problem is that we should avoid hardcoding the drive. We need
a notation for partitions on the boot or the current drive, perhaps by
removing the drive name e.g. "(,5)/boot/grub"
We could also use UUID for single-drive installs and fallback to the
partition prefix only if UUID is unsupported or the user requests not to
use UUID. Then it won't be a big deal if we hardcode the drive.
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-26 1:08 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
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 [this message]
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
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=1217034532.6376.13.camel@dv \
--to=proski@gnu.org \
--cc=grub-devel@gnu.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox