Comitted On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko<phco...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 11:48 PM, Pavel Roskin<pro...@gnu.org> wrote: >> On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 22:55 +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: >> >>> > --target=partmap doesn't work on whole disks. >>> It was the intent. I'm norking on nested partitions and consider the >>> following situation: >>> hd0 is subdivided by pc partmap into >>> hd0,1 - linux >>> hd0,2 - solaris which is subdivided by sun partmap into >>> hd0,2,1 - root >>> hd0,2,2 - swap >>> Then >>> probe -p hd0 gives "none" >>> probe -p hd0,2 gives "pc" >>> probe -p hd0,2,2 gives "sun" >>> another possibility would be >>> probe -p hd0 gives "pc" >>> probe -p hd0,2 gives "sun" >>> probe -p hd0,2,2 gives "none" >>> I don't have strong preference for one or other option but it can't >>> say "pc" on both hd0 and hd0,1 >> >> I think it the concept is not obvious to the user, maybe we could omit >> that functionality? Are you going to use it anywhere? > The idea was to give the scriptwriters more possibilities for > autoconfig. There is normally no reason for an end user to use this > functionality at all but it may be useful in writing automated scripts > for usage on e.g. rescue CD >> >>> P.S. could you improve & commit your target libc patch? >> >> I'm looking at it now, but it will take some time. I've just noticed >> that I didn't post another patch that is required for correct >> implementation (AC_CHECK_FUNCS doesn't work if the target headers are >> missing). Also, I want to eliminate GRUB_SOURCE, at least from the >> configuration scripts. >> >> -- >> Regards, >> Pavel Roskin >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Grub-devel mailing list >> Grub-devel@gnu.org >> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel >> > > > > -- > Regards > Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko >
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