On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 06:31:06AM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > > I would explore the possibility of retiring device.map completely or > limiting its use to some rare cases. > > In the vast majority of cases, the installer should not rely on knowing > the BIOS numbers of the devices involved in the boot process. BIOS > provides the boot drive, which should generally be trusted. The > installer only needs to know whether the media is a hard drive to enable > a workaround for buggy BIOSes providing a wrong boot drive. > > I'm not sure about EFI and Open firmware, but I think the situation is > similar. There should be enough information to find the boot drive at > the boot time without requiring any guesswork in the installer. > > We may need to tell GRUB what device to use to look for additional files > when the boot process involves more than one drive. But even then, I'd > rather prefer that GRUB uses labels, not hardcoded BIOS numbers.
I completely agree. How do we go about this? First of all we need support for labels, right? -- Robert Millan <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
