When using userland drivers such as rumpdisk, we'd rather make ext2fs use parted-based libstore partitioning support. That can be used for kernelland drivers as well, so we can just make grub always use the part: qualifier to switch ext2fs to it.
grub_util_find_hurd_root_device then has to understand this syntax and translate it into the /dev/ entry name. Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thiba...@ens-lyon.org> --- Difference with v2: rebase on master Index: grub2-2.06/util/grub.d/10_hurd.in =================================================================== --- grub2-2.06.orig/util/grub.d/10_hurd.in +++ grub2-2.06/util/grub.d/10_hurd.in @@ -128,9 +128,11 @@ EOF else opts= fi + device=device:${GRUB_DEVICE#/dev/} + device=$(echo "$device" | sed -e 's/^device:\(.*[0-9]\+\)s\([0-9]\+\)$/part:\2:device:\1'/) sed "s/^/$submenu_indentation/" << EOF echo '$(echo "$message" | grub_quote)' - multiboot ${kernel} root=device:${GRUB_DEVICE#/dev/} $opts ${GRUB_CMDLINE_GNUMACH} + multiboot ${kernel} root=$device $opts ${GRUB_CMDLINE_GNUMACH} EOF if [ x$type != xrecovery ] ; then Index: grub2-2.06/grub-core/osdep/hurd/getroot.c =================================================================== --- grub2-2.06.orig/grub-core/osdep/hurd/getroot.c +++ grub2-2.06/grub-core/osdep/hurd/getroot.c @@ -109,6 +109,16 @@ grub_util_find_hurd_root_device (const c grub_util_error (_("translator `%s' for path `%s' is given only options, " "cannot find device part"), argz, path); + int part = -1; + if (strncmp (name, "part:", sizeof ("part:") - 1) == 0) + { + char *next = strchr (name + sizeof ("part:") - 1, ':'); + if (next) + { + part = atoi (name + sizeof ("part:") - 1); + name = next + 1; + } + } if (strncmp (name, "device:", sizeof ("device:") - 1) == 0) { char *dev_name = name + sizeof ("device:") - 1; @@ -123,10 +133,10 @@ grub_util_find_hurd_root_device (const c dev_name = next_name + 1; } - size = sizeof ("/dev/") - 1 + strlen (dev_name) + 1; - ret = xmalloc (size); - next = stpncpy (ret, "/dev/", size); - stpncpy (next, dev_name, size - (next - ret)); + if (part >= 0) + ret = xasprintf("/dev/%ss%u", dev_name, part); + else + ret = xasprintf("/dev/%s", dev_name); } else if (!strncmp (name, "file:", sizeof ("file:") - 1)) ret = strdup (name + sizeof ("file:") - 1);