On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 23:20 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > Hi, > > I'm adding this to the Debian package. We need this for backwards > compatibility in case the new update-grub is used in combination with an > older install of GRUB in /boot/grub (which will surely happen a lot). > > I'm wondering if it makes sense to commit this in official GRUB too.
I think it's a good idea. Suppose that UUID changes for whatever reason. Then it would be a fallback. Maybe we could put a conditional into grub.cfg: if !search --fs-uuid ... set root=... fi Just make sure that the old GRUB will actually grok it. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
