On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 05:25:22PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 02:28:06PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > As Robert said recently, we're trying to get rid of our reliance on > > device.map. Right now, it is still necessary to at least have entries in > > device.map for any disks you wish to use with GRUB, although they don't > > have to be particularly sensible; any bidirectional mapping will do (at > > least as long as the 'search' command works). > > > > I'd like to make it possible to run with no device.map at all, since > > that makes it possible to plug in new disks without having to > > reconfigure GRUB. Here's a draft patch to do this. I haven't supplied a > > ChangeLog entry yet since it isn't suitable for commit yet, as noted in > > TODO comments, but I'd welcome comments on the approach here. > > Ah, I hadn't noticed r1870, sorry. Am I right in believing that my patch > is obsolete, then?
I'm not completely sure, but it seems so. Sorry about that :-( Anyhow, if you find more issues with systems that have no device.map, help is welcome fixing those of course. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all." _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
