On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 6:03 AM, Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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! :-)
Hi, I find the post: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2008-02/msg00542.html -- Bean _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
