> I can think of an alternative. We do still need grub_install_dos_part > and grub_install_bsd_part for the multiboot trampoline, which is in > assembly, so it's difficult to abandon them altogether. However, > there's no reason we need to use them in make_install_device. How about > we invent a way to encode most of the information in string form in > grub_prefix, while leaving a placeholder for make_install_device to fill > in the disk? There are 64 bytes available for grub_prefix, which should > be plenty. For example, how about the following (with \0 standing for > ASCII NUL): > > (\0,msdos1,bsd1)/boot/grub > > It's then just a matter of spotting the "(\0," sequence and replacing > the \0 with the drive name. I think this can probably be done using > less code than the first option above, and all told it feels a bit less > hacky to me.
Instead of doing string replacement, why not just define a disk-relative partition format? Also, the '\0' seems unnecessary. Is having "(," meaningful in some way already? > > > What do people prefer? > > -- > Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
