On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 19:35 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > $ sudo grub-probe -d /dev/sda1 -t drive > (hd0,1) > > I have a reason to want to do the reverse of this: I have a > libparted-based program that ensures that at least one partition on a > disk is marked active (needed for some BIOSes), and would like to call > it on the disk selected for installation of GRUB in d-i. Of course > libparted is only going to understand OS device names. If possible I'd > rather avoid reading device.map by hand to figure out how to map (hd0,1) > back to /dev/sda1. Is there any way to do this with the code as it > stands, and if not would it make sense to make it possible to pass GRUB > device names to grub-probe?
I think device.map is fundamentally unreliable and should be obsoleted. I don't know where you are getting the GRUB device names, but I suggest that you use UUID instead. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
