From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1KLPY1-0006hA-Sx for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:37:29 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KLPXz-0006eg-IA for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:37:27 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KLPXx-0006cx-UM for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:37:27 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48671 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KLPXx-0006cp-RG for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:37:25 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:42386) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KLPXx-0006yU-Lu for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:37:25 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KLPS4-00039Z-4w for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:31:20 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KLPX3-00041M-Bj for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:36:29 +0200 Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:36:29 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080722213629.GB15111@thorin> References: <1216040584.9995.52.camel@dv> <200807160115.07363.okuji@enbug.org> <1216164117.9604.8.camel@dv> <200807160132.18470.okuji@enbug.org> <1216165935.9604.26.camel@dv> <20080716071126.170a1d58@gibibit.com> <1216224537.26635.32.camel@dv> <20080719151410.GE23778@thorin> <1216675577.11291.40.camel@dv> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1216675577.11291.40.camel@dv> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: device.map (Re: Next release?) X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:37:28 -0000 On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 05:26:17PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > > > > This is mostly implemented already. I sent a proof of concept in a mail > > titled "[PATCH] disk/fs_uuid.c". > > > > It will only search hard drives unless no match is found (in that case your > > boot is broken, so you wouldn't care much that floppy is being probed ;-) > > Then all be need it to have an option in grub-install to enable this > logic. Why an option? Is there any situation in which it is known that boot will be unreliable (because embed disk != /boot/grub disk), and in spite of that you don't want UUIDs to be used? -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What good is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.)