On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 12:33:47PM +0800, Bean wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I find the post:
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2008-02/msg00542.html
I completely agree. The patch I sent makes it rely on UUIDs unconditionaly
because it was just a proof of concept, but my intention is to only use UUIDs
when at grub-install time we determined that there's no reliable way to find
the root drive.
I would handle the following cases in the installer:
- If the boot drive is the same as the root drive, the BIOS will tell us
about it at boot time, so we don't use UUIDs.
- If the root drive is LVM or RAID, we can reliably identify it by its
LVM or RAID name, so there's no need to ressort to UUIDs.
- If the boot drive is different than the root drive, often a device.map
guess will work, but not always. So we use UUIDs whenever they're
available.
What do you think?
--
Robert Millan
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