On Wednesday 16 July 2008 00:31:39 Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 23:04 +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > > I am sorry, but can I ask why you want to remove device.map? Did I miss > > any discussion? > > There was a short discussion, but I write it more concisely now. > > 1) We don't want to cache anything. Any cached information risks to > become stale. > > 2) We don't want to rely on knowing how BIOS would see the devices at > the boot time. If GRUB is installed in a way that more than one drive > is involved, it's our responsibility to do it reliably or not at all. > > 3) We don't want floppies or any unrelated drives to be touched when > they are not involved.
OK. Then how do you install GRUB into (hd1) in a development machine, which is (hd0) in a booting machine? When GRUB may not correctly determine BIOS drives, do you want to just give up? Regards, Okuji _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
