On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 01:22:23AM +0800, Bean wrote: > On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sorry for the delay; it was quite a bit of work as I got hit by a number of > > bugs here and there :-) > > > > Considering that the problem was quite similar to the "boot from LVM" issue > > we already knew about, I thought it'd be a good idea to start with that. > > > > Although not directly related, the patch at in "boot from LVM / RAID" mail I > > just sent would allow to easily boot via UUID as well. > > > > If we add a UUID-based disk driver (see "disk/fs_uuid.c" mail), then it's > > just > > a matter of increasing the grub_prefix size so that an UUID can fit in it, > > and > > adjusting the install scripts to do it. > > > > Here's a sample (untested) patch to illustrate it. > > I take a quick look at your patch, the method should work, but i > remember okuji oppose embedding device name in prefix, don't know how > he look at it now.
Do you remember why? (or where it was discussed) Anyway, CCing him. Okuji, please say something! :-) -- Robert Millan <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What good 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
