On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 05:21:08 +0200, Peter Stuge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joseph Smith wrote: >> FILO searches for a filo.conf file on the first drive it finds > > Scanning for drives has been considered before but always dismissed > because it will potentially take a very long time for FILO to start > if it needs to wait for drives to start. > Doesn't the drive have to start for FILO to invoke GRUB? > > As an optional feature, everyone pretty much said they want to be > able to do such a drive scan only a few days ago. Would be great if > you want to hack on it! :) > I do think this would be better approach. I don't think scanning a top level directory would take very long. It wouldn't scan sub directories. Especially when the first drive it finds in the first partition root directory is usually your "/boot" partition. How many files are there, not many.
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