You're probably right, although the focus of my question/feature request
is on the (hd0,0) syntax and not on the device file. I was thinking it
could prompt devices.map for the drive names. Grub can't use /dev/sda1
style syntax, you are correct, and I can't think of a logical workaround
other than that.
That being said, it would still be useful for the user to be able to see
what drive a grub has access to. Going back to the basic concept of the
request which was to simplify grub for the new user by displaying which
hard drives/partitions are available for grub to boot from (in (hd0,0)
syntax). This could help the user easily create a menu.lst from the grub
prompt/shell/menu.
-k
Neil Jerram wrote:
komputes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
$ grub --pitty-da-foo #this command doesn't exist (...yet)
Checking disks...
Mem Used
(hd0) /dev/sda
(hd0,0) /dev/sda1 50GB 25%
(hd0,1) /dev/sda2 50GB 25%
(hd1) /dev/sdb
(hd1,0) /dev/sdb1 50GB 25%
(hd1,1) /dev/sdb2 50GB 25%
Just a thought: but if Grub could do that, couldn't it just accept the
"/dev/sda1"-style syntax everywhere?
Regards,
Neil
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