This would be very useful to get rid of ugly kludges in Debian, such as this
one:
http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-grub/grub2/trunk/debian/update-grub?op=file&rev=0&sc=0
(look for convert() here)
Fortunately grub-probefs is already doing what we need, we just need a way to
tell it to print the information.
2006-09-22 Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* util/i386/pc/grub-probefs.c: Add -r|--root-device option (print
guessed root device and exit).
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2006-09-22 Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* util/i386/pc/grub-probefs.c: Add -r|--root-device option (print
guessed root device and exit).
Index: util/i386/pc/grub-probefs.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /sources/grub/grub2/util/i386/pc/grub-probefs.c,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -r1.3 grub-probefs.c
--- util/i386/pc/grub-probefs.c 23 Apr 2006 13:37:36 -0000 1.3
+++ util/i386/pc/grub-probefs.c 22 Sep 2006 16:05:08 -0000
@@ -47,6 +47,8 @@
#define DEFAULT_DEVICE_MAP DEFAULT_DIRECTORY "/device.map"
+int print_root = 0;
+
void
grub_putchar (int c)
{
@@ -84,6 +86,12 @@
return;
}
+ if (print_root)
+ {
+ printf ("(%s)\n", device_name);
+ return;
+ }
+
grub_util_info ("opening %s", device_name);
dev = grub_device_open (device_name);
if (! dev)
@@ -121,6 +129,7 @@
Probe a filesystem module for a given path.\n\
\n\
-m, --device-map=FILE use FILE as the device map [default=%s]\n\
+ -r, --root-device print guessed root device and exit\n\
-h, --help display this message and exit\n\
-V, --version print version information and exit\n\
-v, --verbose print verbose messages\n\
@@ -143,7 +152,7 @@
/* Check for options. */
while (1)
{
- int c = getopt_long (argc, argv, "m:hVv", options, 0);
+ int c = getopt_long (argc, argv, "m:rhVv", options, 0);
if (c == -1)
break;
@@ -157,6 +166,10 @@
dev_map = xstrdup (optarg);
break;
+ case 'r':
+ print_root=1;
+ break;
+
case 'h':
usage (0);
break;
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