Adrián <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Why is this a problem? >> This is only a problem when using search to look for files. I assume >> this is what you are talking about? Thus you can not determine which >> disk search will find? > > I will make a better explanation. I want to use the current feature from > search command that saves into a variable the first partition where one > file has been found. > > Once I have this variable I will be able to install grub2 'stage1' into > the mbr.
You can't install GRUB 2 from GRUB 2, only by using grub-setup and grub-install. > So the usb problem is the following one: > > You are using the usb device as a rescue disk not as a normal linux > boot device. So you do not want to reinstall grub on the usb itself ( > hd0 ) but on hd1, which it is, in fact, your first hard disk. That sounds like something that can be scripted. >> Adding the capability to use UUIDs can solve most of the problems you >> encounter. > > Can you give me a link about documentation on UUIDs I do not know what > does mean. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUID >> The (existing) label feature can also be used. > > label gives the hard disk labels and also the cdrom label ? To be more precise: It gives the label of the filesystem. Perhaps it is not implemented in every fileystem (you could check that). In that case it should be added to our TODO list. -- Marco _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
