On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 00:08 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > I don't think it's that unusual. Let's take an example. We have 1 PATA > disk and 1 SATA disk, and are installing GNU/Linux in it. We only have > one /boot partition (or directory in /). Turns out we have no idea which > of the two disks the BIOS will want to use for boot. So the safest option > is to grub-install in both. A consequence of this is that one of the two > installs is cross-disk.
I'm not saying it's unusual. GRUB cannot distinguish an external SATA from an internal SATA. In case on an external SATA, the user may expect to create a drive that would boot everywhere. > And (provided that UUIDs are used), this setup is _completely_ reliable and > there's no reason to prevent the user from doing it, IMHO. My point is not to prevent it, just to make it clear to the user. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
