On 6/30/10, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is a catch-22. udev populates /dev which is needed to determine > partitions. The only alternative is to do raw device searches and the > number of different device types and filesystems on those devices makes > this really prohibitive. GRUB does it, but that's not the kernel's job.
Fine. Some day, some genius is going to figure out that making linux booting better is ok. At any rate, grub2 search line is not totally useless, and that is nice to know. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page