From: Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Cc: sigmaepsilon92@gmail.com
Subject: Re: get partition by name
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 21:40:32 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140929214032.5364e8f8@opensuse.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN9vWD+VbyKV_Qi609W+0QZ_aXS6p55xeHJ+uEq011Aaht5LSQ@mail.gmail.com>
В Mon, 29 Sep 2014 19:20:07 +0200
Michael Zimmermann <sigmaepsilon92@gmail.com> пишет:
> as it seems this commands looks for some filesystem specific label only.
> What I need is the partition name set in the GPT/MBR partition table.
Please explain where name is set in MBR partition table.
>
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 10:25:51AM +0200, Michael Zimmermann wrote:
> > > currently GRUB allows selecting partitions by the partition number only -
> > > like (hd0,11).
> > > Sometimes - especially for embedded systems it would be useful to be able
> > > to select them by the name define in the partition table. like:
> > (hd0,boot)
> > > or (hd0,rootfs).
> > >
> > > Are they any plans(or existing features which I missed) for this?
> >
> > Use the "search" command.
> >
> > https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#search
> >
> > --
> > Colin Watson [cjwatson@ubuntu.com]
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Grub-devel mailing list
> > Grub-devel@gnu.org
> > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
> >
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-29 8:25 get partition by name Michael Zimmermann
2014-09-29 11:04 ` Colin Watson
2014-09-29 17:20 ` Michael Zimmermann
2014-09-29 17:40 ` Andrei Borzenkov [this message]
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