From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" <okuji@enbug.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Next release?
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:15:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200807160115.07363.okuji@enbug.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1216161099.8266.28.camel@dv>
On Wednesday 16 July 2008 00:31:39 Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 23:04 +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> > I am sorry, but can I ask why you want to remove device.map? Did I miss
> > any discussion?
>
> There was a short discussion, but I write it more concisely now.
>
> 1) We don't want to cache anything. Any cached information risks to
> become stale.
>
> 2) We don't want to rely on knowing how BIOS would see the devices at
> the boot time. If GRUB is installed in a way that more than one drive
> is involved, it's our responsibility to do it reliably or not at all.
>
> 3) We don't want floppies or any unrelated drives to be touched when
> they are not involved.
OK. Then how do you install GRUB into (hd1) in a development machine, which is
(hd0) in a booting machine? When GRUB may not correctly determine BIOS
drives, do you want to just give up?
Regards,
Okuji
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-15 23:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ 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 [this message]
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
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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2008-07-16 0:22 chaac
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