On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 04:00:23PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > Just leave it with (/dev/foo). > > You mean literally with the parentheses? I don't understand, since /dev/ > names will be unintelligible to GRUB when running outside an operating > system.
Yes. This just means we'd have "set root=(/dev/foo)" statements in grub.cfg, but those are just meant as a backward compatibility hack for pre-UUID GRUB installs. Which I guess addresses your next question: > > If you remove device.map generation from grub-install, you can remove > > the backward compatibility hack while at it. > > Which backward compatibility hack? :-) However, notice that after David Miller's remark about Sparc support, it's probably better to: - Keep the backward compatibility hack. - Not remove device.map on Sparc yet (untill a better solution is available) > > In the future, we can rely on the initial value of $root as well, but this > > would require some rework (disk / partition split). > > Would you mind elaborating on this? I would like to get this sorted out > and am willing to work on it. Uhm actually I'm not completely sure this would work, as multi-disk setups have multiple values for initial $root. Better just ignore this part ;-) > Sorry to be stupid, Not at all! -- Robert Millan "Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Gandhi _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
