On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Colin Watson<cjwat...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 05:03:44PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: >> 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. > > They're entered by users choosing where to install GRUB, whom we can > hardly expect to enter UUIDs by hand. Perhaps we can figure out how to > give them a select list of available choices, which could then include > UUIDs behind the scenes ... > Asking for an input like "/dev/sda1" isn't a big change. Bug choice list is of course better > -- > Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] > > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel >
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